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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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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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 like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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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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It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.
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Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
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The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
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I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.
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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.
