Amanda Lindhout Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.
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I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.
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I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
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There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
