Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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He was the toast to her butter.
