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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We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
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It was a dream for me to participate in the Olympic Games - now I am in the final and ready to win gold.
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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?
