Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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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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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
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First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.
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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
