Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
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Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
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Ideas, though, are not singular. They are forged through tens of thousands of decisions, often made by dozens of people.
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If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.
