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Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout
Canadian Journalist
Born: Jun 12, 1981
Home Life Me People World You
Related authors: Adrienne Clarkson Carl Honore Clive Thompson David Sax Gordon Sinclair Naomi Klein Peter Jennings Shane Smith
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. Amanda Lindhout
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When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born. Amanda Lindhout
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Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by. Amanda Lindhout
Family Terrorism Mother Try Father Wife Husband Further Telling About Through Support Maintaining Powerless Also Caught Still Line Provide Governments Canadian While Hard Payments Standing Agony Many Including
It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems. Amanda Lindhout
Education Problems Slow Country Understanding Somalia Like Huge Lack Social Creates Social Problems
My faith in human decency was sorely tested at times during my captivity; however, after my release, I am humbly reminded that mankind is inherently good by the tremendous efforts and support of fellow Canadians. Amanda Lindhout
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It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free. Amanda Lindhout
Freedom You Words Free Difficult Only Put Feels Like Know
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. Amanda Lindhout
Christmas Home You Own Pain Contemplating Isolated Far Unique Brings
Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days. Amanda Lindhout
Work Journalist Freelance Gone Photographer Somalia Trip Ten Only Days Named Accompanied Australian Meant Last
Maintaining my dignity is so important for me. Amanda Lindhout
Me Dignity Important Maintaining
It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment. Amanda Lindhout
Slow Understanding Environment Really Product
What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me. Amanda Lindhout
Me Define Somalia Happened
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible. Amanda Lindhout
People Think Invincible Like Unusual Felt Many
The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live. Amanda Lindhout
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are. Amanda Lindhout
Critical Systems Support Know Firsthand How
Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy. Amanda Lindhout
Dark Weight Real Being Heavy
I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world. Amanda Lindhout
Healing World Think Out Find Lot
I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion. Amanda Lindhout
Politics Religion Speak Try Desperately East Must About Excel Absorb Middle Want Middle East Information
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand. Amanda Lindhout
War People Long Other Must Thrill Only Make Understand Middle Being
What a woman is taught, she shares with her family. Amanda Lindhout
Family Woman Shares She Taught Her
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world. Amanda Lindhout
Positive Business World Decision Compassion Made Example Community Enormous Positive Impact Somali Impact Feed How Shining Itself Famine Victims Business Community Speaks
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do? Amanda Lindhout
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After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor. Amanda Lindhout
Life History Woman Joy World Humor Mistakes Young Older Think Changed Back Everyone Spending Some Emerge Objectivity Hostage Wiser Days Like Look Felt Does Person Did After Young Woman Even Grow Traveling Earlier Fundamentally
I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality. Amanda Lindhout
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I am so proud to be a Canadian. Amanda Lindhout
Proud Am Canadian
I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make. Amanda Lindhout
Dark Fall Someone Lights Make Afraid Want Choice Choose Who Right Sleep
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. Amanda Lindhout
Space Because Enclosed Get Afraid
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