Sarah Dessen Quotes
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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A cat is never vulgar.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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'We're all self-serving.' Camilla shrugged. 'It's just a matter of what we do to others in service of ourselves.
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Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.
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That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.
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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.
