Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
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It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
