Sarah Dessen Quotes
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.
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The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
