Sarah Dessen Quotes
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People have to evolve.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
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I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.
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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
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If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
