Amy Purdy Quotes
I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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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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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.
