Amanda Lindhout Quotes
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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You must know that Iran has a great number of productions. Many films are released. Most of them, like in the rest of the world, are commercial and shallow films. These are the most popular ones. And there are a few ones that actually develop more profound and thoughtful aspects of life. Only some of these films travel out of Iran.
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I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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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?
