Laird Hamilton Quotes
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!
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I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.
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God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
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I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.
