Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
