Allan Weisbecker Quotes
In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Finding balance in life is perhaps the greatest challenge of this generation, especially for women. I've decided that I need to compartmentalize my life better. From the time my kids get home until after dinner, I put my phone away. If I pick it up, my kids call me on it, and I have to put money in the "phone jar." When the phone jar gets full, the kids can spend the money on fun family outings, like going to a movie or going to their favorite restaurant. This unplugged time has helped me to be more mindful and give them my full attention.
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I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.
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As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
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In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen.
