Amy Purdy Quotes
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I like things simple.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.
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Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
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Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.
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For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.
