Amazing Things Quotes - Page 9

• The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

  John Hamill

  New York, Real, Oil

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• I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

  Jonathan Demme

  Strong, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1998.

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• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Yesterday, Why Not, Today

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• If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

  Marissa Mayer

  Feelings, Risk, Scared

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• Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

  Frank Laubach

  Most Amazing, Conversation, Companion

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.16, SPCK

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• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Want, Failing, Made

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• Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Compassion, Giving, Perspective

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• The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things.

  Sarah

  Children, Hands, Clothes

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• To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Lord, Leslie

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• It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

  Laurie R. King

  Shoes, Differences, Pairs

  Laurie R. King (2012). “O Jerusalem”, p.55, Allison & Busby

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

  Olivia Wilde

  Priorities, Parent, Firsts

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

  Brenda Lee

  Children, Hate, Guy

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• Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

  Paul Buchheit

  Jobs, Commitment, Reality

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• So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

  Billy Sherwood

  Boards, Purpose, Done

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• Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Real, Pregnancy, Giving

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• The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

  Langdon Winner

  Country, Civilization, Cities

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• The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

  Brian Lumley

  Voice, Lost, Critics

  "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Race, Three

  "Is Reality Optional?". Book by Thomas Sowell, November 22, 1993.

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• The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

  Matt Groening

  Rocks, Ugly, Rock N Roll

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• My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.

  Jenson Button

  Mustache, Trying, Moustache

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• Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

  Robin Quivers

  Years, Body, Given

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• There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

  Terry Pratchett

  Country, Race, Fans

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