Amy Purdy Quotes
It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
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The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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Lindsey Graham is now the seventh Republican running for president. If you're keeping score, that's basically one Republican candidate for every two Republican voters.
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It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.
