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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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've had enough of danger And people on the streets I'm looking out for angels Just trying to find some peace Now I think it's time That you let me know So if you love me Say you love me But if you don't just let me go...
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My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.
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We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
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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.
