Laird Hamilton Quotes

Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

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• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Idea
  • Vague

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Development
  • Environmental

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Learning

• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Want
  • Down

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Kind
  • Wife
  • Generous

• Gloves make you so much more delicate.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • More
  • Gloves

• I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • People
  • Giving
  • Focus

• Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Job
  • Pretty

• We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Party

• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • She

• They were like an iceberg, it occurred to me, my father the seven-sights that was under the water and my mother the luminous portion riding the waves. But no, they were two icebergs: solitary phenomena, impressive, independent, known only to themselves. I felt their hidden seven-eighths inside me as a dark bulkiness whose outlines I was always trying to map.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Mother
  • Riding
  • Phenomena

• Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • She
  • Mother
  • Strong