Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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Sei giorni me n'andai matina e seraPer balze e per pendici orride e strane,Dove non via, dove sentier non era.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.
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First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
