Amanda Smith Quotes
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.
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Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
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Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
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We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.
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The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
