Sarah Dessen Quotes
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.
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Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
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I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
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I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.
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I play golf - badly.
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If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
