Amanda Coplin Quotes
The forest would absorb her, she thought, it would keep her until the future showed itself.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.
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Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...
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There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
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For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.
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It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
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The forest would absorb her, she thought, it would keep her until the future showed itself.
