Amanda Filipacchi Quotes

My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

Amanda Filipacchi

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
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• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
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• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

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• In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
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• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
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• I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Citizens
  • Take

• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  

  Questlove
  • Best
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  • Pressure

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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  • Romantic
  • Comfort

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Dad
  • Vote
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• People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Words
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• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Great
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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Born
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• Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• So long as man is protected by madness he functions and flourishes, but when he frees himself from the fruitful tyranny of fixed ideas, he is lost, ruined.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Long
  • Lost

• Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Grandson
  • American Revolution
  • Ben Franklin

• My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
  • Freedom
  • Choice
  • Gift