Amelia Earhart Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

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• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

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• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

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• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

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• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

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• It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

  

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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

  

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• I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

  

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• Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

  

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• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  

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• I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

  

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• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

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• I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

  

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• I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

  

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• It's like shock on their face. Because they're like, 'I cannot believe I enjoyed your concert'.

  

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• There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

  

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• Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.

  

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• As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman, but I respect the decision of the Court, and I think it's time to move on.

  

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• To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

  

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• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

  

  Amelia Earhart
  • Decision
  • Act
  • Fears