Amanda Bennett Quotes
Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.
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The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.
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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.
