Lucy Walker Quotes
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.
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To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
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I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
