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.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Wrong
  • Anything
  • Anybody

• To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Me
  • Joke

• I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Very
  • Early
  • Knew

• 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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Loved

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• 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.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • California
  • Taxes

• 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.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Name

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Up
  • War
  • Military

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Country
  • Job
  • Best

• 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.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Aunt
  • Elephant

• 'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Work
  • Demon

• The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Lawyer

• In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

  

  Connie Britton
  • American
  • Night
  • Friday

• I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

  

  Christopher Atkins

• People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • People

• 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.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Abuse