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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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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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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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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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three defenses of Lincoln's strong actions. Suspend habeas, blockade, increase army without congress, arrest Maryland legislators, etc.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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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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Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
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Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.
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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.
