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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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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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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We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.
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I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
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I'm a watch guy - to me, they symbolize hard work and determination.
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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.
