Amanda Lindhout Quotes

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Amanda Lindhout

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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

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In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Max Baucus

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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Amy Waldman

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There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

Skeet Ulrich

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It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

Roberto Clemente

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Fire people who are not workaholics.

Jason Calacanis

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I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

Jason Wu

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As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

Jonathan Stroud

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People can't do miracles and are not responsible to do miracles, but people can pick up miracles from God and hand it to another person - a miracle happens when that occurs.

Bruce Wilkinson

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Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.

Anthony Hitt

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On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

Wolfgang Tillmans

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If you manage to stop the timber industry from cutting this forest, they'll cut that forest. If you stop oil drilling here, they'll go drill there.

Woody Harrelson

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