Amy Johnson Quotes
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
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Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
