Neil Young
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
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Surfing
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Lee Clow
Advertising Executive
"There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules."
Nat Young
Surfer
"If in doubt, paddle out."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
Owen Wilson
Actor
"I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff."
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"In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving."
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"I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it."
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"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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"I've tried body surfing. It's nice."
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"I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life."
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"Just shred baby, shred."
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"I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish."
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"In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start."
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"The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing."
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"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."
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"I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience."
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""Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment."
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"I was a serious method actor until I visited this site."
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"In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife."
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"If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?"
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"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."
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"To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts."
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"Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site."
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"We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing."
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"Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing."
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