Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
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My music has always been the same. It's the same kinda music but of a better quality. For me nothing really changes just the work rate. It's the work rate that changes more than the music.
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.
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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
