Sarah Dessen Quotes
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.
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Benedict and Bernard and the other true monastic peacemakers of history have been effective because they have acted from a deep source of peace within themselves, dating a context for peace. This is the contribution a Christian man or woman of peace can make.
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You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
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For Ignatius, since salvation comes to the human body, it must be experienced in the human body.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
