Sarah Dessen Quotes
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I'm totally myself.
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
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I like to sing love songs.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
