Amy Sedaris Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.
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Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.
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People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.
