Amy Purdy Quotes

That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.

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• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Good
  • Company

• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • Down

• My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Running
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• My parents didn't have any money.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Any

• While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Story
  • Debate
  • Traffic

• Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • World
  • Music
  • Start

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Reading
  • College
  • Library

• Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Retirement

• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Improvement

• We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Hurt

• Jo from The Facts of Life was such a lesbian. Wasn't she the biggest lesbian? I used to watch that show, like, 'Oh, she gonna fuck Blair!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • She
  • Lesbian

• That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain - I've got a womb.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Mom
  • Brain
  • March

• Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Kids

• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Chance
  • Chaos
  • Incident

• I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • School
  • Bad
  • Today

• Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Masterpiece
  • Resembles

• That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.

  

  Amy Purdy