Amy Purdy Quotes

Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also become a lot stronger. It doesn't mean I'm at any disadvantage, really.

Amy Purdy

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StrongerJust BecauseAdaptBecome

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Robert M. Gates

YouGoKnowSaidSayOld

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Robert Fulghum

BestTogetherWorldHandsYouTrue

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

Ronnie James Dio

GoodMusicMeStartOpportunities

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Rufus Wainwright

AgeRomanticSocietyBelieveAlive

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Martti Ahtisaari

PeacePeopleI CanWantNothing

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

Mike Mills

IntelligenceThinkAnimalsEmotion

I love to sit down on a beanbag at the end of the day and watch my fish. It's therapeutic, isn't it? They're alive, and I'm keeping them alive. I like the responsibility.

Luke Evans

LoveResponsibilityDayEndFish

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Jean Craighead George

WorkHopeProblemsLearnEmpower

The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries.

Jose Ramos-Horta

IntegrityTogetherPeopleThreeSide

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

Jonathan Nolan

MemoriesSpaceBrotherWatchingMake

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

Dolly Parton

GoodHomeGreatAlwaysPerform

None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

KnowUsNoneQuiteShould

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