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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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.