Nicholas Sparks Quotes
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
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Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... (p. 296)
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You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
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People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.
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You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
