Laird Hamilton Quotes
When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
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When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.
