Amanda Lindhout Quotes
It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
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It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
