And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.