Sarah Dessen Quotes
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.
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I struggle with control.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.
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I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
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I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.
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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.
