Amanda Lindhout Quotes
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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Cuando me conformo con nada es cuando me conformo de todo.
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We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
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My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.
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Without social media, I wouldn't have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I'd be on it if it wasn't part of my job.
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I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
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Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.
