Amy Purdy Quotes
I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
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My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
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If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
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If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
