Nicholas Sparks Quotes
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
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I'm a fake intellectual.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!
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I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.
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Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.
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I love Elektra. I really have a special place in my heart for her. It was very enjoyable for me to discover her and to adapt her for this project and bring myself to this character. So I have a special spot for her.
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What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.
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I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.
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Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.
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Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.
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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
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You have the Best Of Me.