Amanda Lindhout Quotes

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Amanda Lindhout

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Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.

Matthew Stewart

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I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.

Matt Cain

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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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My mom had put her house up to bail me out of jail!

Molly Bloom

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I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

Dick Cavett

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When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

Christopher Fowler

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Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Chuck Mangione

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I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.

ASAP Rocky

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I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

Peter Mayhew

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I've been dumped plenty of times, I can assure you of that.

Shaun Evans

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You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Richard Lamm

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People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Noreena Hertz

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