Amy Purdy Quotes

I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Great
  • Loss
  • DNA

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Job
  • Day
  • Thought

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Eyes
  • Moment
  • Blue

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • May
  • Character

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Air
  • Guilty

• India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

  

  Beverly Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• When you shampoo your hair, you're trying to get the oil out of your roots, but you really want the rest of your hair to maintain its moisture. When you put coconut oil on the ends, the shampoo gets oil out of the roots, but also protects the ends.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Hair

• As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

  

  Monty Hall
  • People
  • Successful
  • Wanted

• For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Small
  • Lose
  • Aim

• Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Growth

• I'm very grateful that I've had the opportunities I've had.

  

  Amy Purdy