Laird Hamilton Quotes
People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.
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Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
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The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
