Amy Purdy Quotes

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

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• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• I write music every day.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Everyday

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Trying
  • You
  • Cheating

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Fun

• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Life
  • God
  • Rest

• It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Different
  • Play
  • Thought

• I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Black
  • Poor
  • Created

• The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Religious

• 'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line

  

  Anne Rice
  • Vampire

• Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

• Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

  

  Howard Jacobson
  • Sex

• Durmiendo sueño lo que despierto sueño. Y mi soñar es continuo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

  

  John Walsh
  • Time
  • She

• A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. 'Tell me, O Master,' he said, 'why you have come into this world.' 'To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.

  

  Eric Taylor
  • Fall
  • Hearts
  • Souls

• I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

  

  Amy Purdy