Sarah Dessen Quotes
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
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I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
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People judged my work without to have listened to it.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
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The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.
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I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.
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I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
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So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.
