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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
Taylor Hackford -
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley
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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.
L'Wren Scott -
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.
Harri Holkeri -
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.
Samantha Power -
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.
Daniel Everett -
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.
Warren Spector -
I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
Nat Wolff
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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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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.
Jacob Bronowski -
I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.
Andrea Dworkin -
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton -
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
David MacKenzie -
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.
David Quammen
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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young -
There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.
Donald Cerrone -
We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
Kailash Satyarthi -
We are our own worst inhibitors
Laird Hamilton