Amy Purdy Quotes

Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.

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• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Finding
  • West

• It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Picture

• The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • You
  • Place
  • Layers

• I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Better

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• I'm someone that never likes to overpower the girls in hair and makeup.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Makeup

• The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fun

• They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Warrior

• Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Balance

• Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Good
  • Picture

• My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Inspiration
  • Poetic
  • Objection

• I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Work

• We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Black
  • Support

• If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Country
  • Art
  • Cooking

• Oh, my goodness, I am obsessed with Costco! We do runs at least twice a week. I love the salmon and rotisserie chicken, the dog beds.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Dog

• There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

  

  Lili Simmons
  • World
  • Book
  • Movie

• There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Life
  • Up
  • Risk

• It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • True
  • Political

• Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.

  

  Amy Purdy