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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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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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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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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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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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
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If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
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The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
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Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a song, I have to make it short and then shorter - so it's not easy!
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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.
