Sarah Dessen Quotes
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.
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I think I have a good head on my shoulders.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
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My life is my message.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
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In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.
