Amy Macdonald Quotes
I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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In Paradise perchance the eye may stray from gazing upon everlasting Day to see the day illumined, and renew from mirrored truth the likeness of the True.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
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Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.
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I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
