Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I'm learning every day.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.
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I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
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The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.
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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
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I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
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The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
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This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.
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I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
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Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.
