Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.
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I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things.
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Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
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Don't let fear govern your decision.
