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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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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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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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 about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
