Veronica Roth Quotes
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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I have always loathed working out.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
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It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
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Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
