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.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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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.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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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.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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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.
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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.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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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.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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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.
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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.
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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
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People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
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I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.
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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.
