Abby Sunderland Quotes
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I take my work seriously.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.
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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
