Amanda Burton Quotes
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.
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The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.
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We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.
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Good leaders, good team players, know how to make the most of everything.
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No, I always wanted to be an actress.
