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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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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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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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.
