Veronica Roth Quotes
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
