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 don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley -
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
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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.
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 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 -
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
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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 -
I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.
Andrea Bocelli -
The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
David Hyde Pierce
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The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
Charles Kuralt -
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
Janet Jackson -
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
Will Self -
A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
Lois McMaster -
I expect to work hard, earn the respect of my teammates and hopefully I can start.
Eric Reid -
We are our own worst inhibitors
Laird Hamilton