Amy Purdy Quotes
My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh.
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
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My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
