Amanda de Cadenet Quotes
I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
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Aunt Agatha is like an elephant-not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets.
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Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.
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I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng. Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.
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The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
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Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
