Amanda Lindhout Quotes

I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills

• Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Success

• People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • People
  • Sports

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Voice
  • Accept

• I feel like Fox did 'Grease' really right, I thought that was fantastic - it was so well mounted, well-executed, the performances were great, and it had a real sense of fun.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Fun

• I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

  

  J Mascis
  • Pretty

• I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • People
  • Home
  • Dream