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.Amy Purdy
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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.
Barbet Schroeder -
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
Zachery Ty Bryan -
I don't like the blame game, though.
Barbara Bush -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
Ofra Strauss -
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.
Ted Nugent
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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.
Orson Scott Card -
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny -
The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
Sammy Cahn -
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
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.
Salma Hayek
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
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.
Larry Kramer -
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.
Karin Slaughter -
It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
Lara Stone -
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells -
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
Derek Sivers -
My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.
Brian Krzanich -
'Everything is art. Everything is politics.'
Ai Weiwei -
This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Leo Buscaglia -
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.
Amy Purdy