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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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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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.
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Desperate times breed desperate measures.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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We Montanans take pride in our low crime rate and believe honest people can disagree without being disagreeable. Maybe extremist groups believe they can find a home in Montana because of our easygoing ways.
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Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that can exercise the human mind. The more you think of it, the more all other questions seem to sink into utter insignificance, for only if survival be true, can the Universe be rationalized at all.
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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.
