Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.
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I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
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He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.
