"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it."

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Source : Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

Diana Nyad

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“I don't mind to look older. I don't have this urge that so many people have that they've always got to look young all their lives. I think you should be the age you are and enjoy it... But if you want to have it, go ahead and have it, but take a good look before you do because, just maybe, you look absolutely beautiful the way you are.”

Source : "A Model Career: 'Grace' Goes From Runway To 'Vogue'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2012.
“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
“There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.”
“Where the hell do you put the bayonet?”
“There is nothing like first-hand evidence.”
“I am operating under the philosophy that I will simply use what I need and the rest - even if I still have it somewhere - is not mine. It is others'. It is for the healing of the natural world. And it is in the process of returning.”
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.”
“I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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