Amanda Lindhout Quotes

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Science
  • Reflect

• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Police

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Day
  • Like
  • Queen

• You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Doing
  • Young
  • Wanted

• I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • Done
  • Water

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Food
  • Wall
  • Financial

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Father
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Look at a map of the world: the countries which do not trade much, or which trade only in oil and gas, tend to be in regions which suffer the most social and political instability.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • World
  • Political

• The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Painting

• I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • God
  • Universe

• I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

  

  Diplo
  • People

• I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • World
  • Trying
  • Beautiful