Ami McKay Quotes
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.Ami McKay
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
Palmer Luckey -
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
Ira Hayes -
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell -
I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
Becky Lynch
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman -
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso -
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
J. Reuben Clark -
If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
Gayle Gardner -
Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
Flip Wilson -
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold Kushner -
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
Barry Zito -
We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
Barack Obama -
Let ya hair down and shake that shit, shake that shit, shake that shit.Sweat it out, go nuts in this bitch.Dip it, spin it, and watchin' my hips;I see you watchin' my hips.
Iggy Azalea -
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.
Wally Schirra -
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
Oscar Wilde -
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
Laila Robins -
As we get older... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.
Maury Yeston -
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.
Ami McKay