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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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
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Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.
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We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
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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.
