Amanda Lindhout Quotes
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation.
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I have respect for Senator McCain. I used to like him a lot. I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama.
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I know everyone claims that their cast is 'really close,' but I think the bond we share in 'Newsies' is unique. In the show, these boys risk everything in the name of brotherhood, and I feel that same way about the guys in my cast.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I came here because I wanted to live the American dream that I had heard of. And I'm a perfect example. I came to New York; I knew no one. I've made a career, a life, so I still believe in that.
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The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
