Amanda Craig Quotes

I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

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• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
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• Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
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• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
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• I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • New York
  • Short

• Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Chance
  • Search
  • Lead

• The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Order
  • Product
  • Genetic

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Always
  • Years
  • Special

• There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Single
  • Courage

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Working
  • Start
  • Trouble

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Contradictions
  • Illusory

• The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • King

• Madison Avenue is responsible for that, ... In fact, 'Beach Girls' (her upcoming Lifetime movie) is made for, designed for, and targeted to the 18 to 34 age group.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Movie
  • Age
  • Beach

• [Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Work
  • Real
  • Small

• My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • She
  • Want

• There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

  

  Paul G. Tremblay
  • Writers
  • Ways
  • Terrifying

• The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Blow
  • Destroy
  • Task

• It struck me that such analyses had it backward. It’s the American public for whom the Iraq War is often no more real than a video game. Five years into this war, I am not always confident most Americans fully appreciate the caliber of the people fighting for them, the sacrifices they have made, and the sacrifices they continue to make. After the Vietnam War ended, the onus of shame largely fell on the veterans. This time around, if shame is to be had when the Iraq conflict ends - and all indications are there will be plenty of it - the veterans are the last people in America to deserve it. When it comes to apportioning shame my vote goes to the American people who sent them to war in a surge of emotion but quickly lost the will to either win it or end it. The young troops I profiled in Generation Kill, as well as the other men and women in uniform I’ve encountered in combat zones throughout Iraq and Afghanistan, are among the finest people of their generation. We misuse them at our own peril.

  

  Evan Wright
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Confident

• People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Alive
  • Prison

• Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Children
  • Father
  • Prayer

• I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

  

  Amanda Craig
  • Confident
  • Institutions
  • Opposite