Amanda Lindhout Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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...thousands of little children occupy sleeping quarters with parents and boarders whose every act is visible to all. Morality indeed! Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.
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I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
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With awareness come responsibility and choice.
