Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.
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If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
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If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
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I'm not particularly ethnically Scottish; I have one grandfather who is Scottish, although he's called Macdonald, and you don't get a lot more Scottish than that. The Scottish part of my family are from Skye, and I've always been very aware of that - always been very attracted to Scottish subject matter, I guess.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.
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Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported.
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Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders.
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And there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.
