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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The best of healers is good cheer.
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
