Amy Purdy Quotes
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.
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We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame.
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I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.
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To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.
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The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
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We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
