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Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal. -- Pierre Trudeau
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving. -- Julia Mancuso
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. -- Michael Caine
I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. -- Rick Santorum
Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes. -- Caroline Dhavernas
As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath. -- Alexander Skarsgard
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative. -- Tabitha King
I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do. -- June Carter Cash
I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. -- John Dos Passos
I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath. -- Fred Shero
Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement. -- Ken Hitchcock
The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath. -- Bill Cosby
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling. -- Scott Stossel
I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around. -- AnnaSophia Robb
I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself. -- Katharine Hepburn
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions. -- Sanford Meisner
The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes. -- Pete Seeger
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely. -- Robert Higgs
In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system? -- Sara Genn
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild. -- Wendell Berry
Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub. -- Gail Carriger
In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond. -- Warren Buffett
The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race is for us a continuation of our training, we will compete in only this World cup. We don't want to travel too much before the Olympic Games and we want to focus on the Games. -- Pavol Hochschorner
Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. -- Kevin McCloud
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard. -- Salman Khan
A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life. -- Lindsey Vonn
If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging. -- John Niven
Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling! -- Gerry Lopez
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys) -- George R. R. Martin
Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. -- Manoj Arora
I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can. -- Jarod Kintz

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