Amy Purdy Quotes
Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers -
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.
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It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
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I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'
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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
