Laird Hamilton Quotes
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
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I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
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I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
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Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.
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We are our own worst inhibitors
