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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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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I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joyful.
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We lost this game with no fundamentals. If we all collectively get the fundamentals down, we win this game.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.
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When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.
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First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
