Hobart Alter Quotes

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

Hobart Alter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1933 - March 29, 2014

Topics

GoodQualityPeopleLookingProblem

I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we've already gained.

Jim Brown

AmericanCountryCitizenWantWill

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

Jodi Picoult

ChangeMindMeOpinionCareWhy

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

John Dingell

RespectThinkAheadMatterLittle

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

John Tiffany

BestMeWorldWorstRealLine

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.

Robin DiAngelo

LifeRacismMeMy LifeWhiteGroup

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

Ronaldinho

FamilyFootballJobHousePlayOnly

Jeff Buckley songs are kind of random but so catchy.

LP

RandomKindSongsCatchyJeff

I don't know if you guys have ever kissed anybody in real life, but it doesn't always go as planned. It's not always pretty. It doesn't always look like a movie. It usually looks more like 'American Pie.'

Jordan Gavaris

LifeAmericanYouLookPieLooks

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Dinah Shore

Just BecauseNeverUpSocialJust

Especially today, with the Internet, you have people who have best friends that they never met, with Facebook and Twitter and stuff. If you're really friends, it doesn't matter if I'm on the other side of the world. We'll still be friends and find a way to connect.

Astro

TodayBestPeopleWorldInternet

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

Alison Krauss

LifeNatureGoodAcceptanceYourself

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

Nick Tosches

RideManGarbageKidDinosaurSide

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