Amanda Lindhout Quotes
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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We all do stupid things.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!
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It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.
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When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.
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Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,Giving a soul to her manifold features,Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
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Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
