Sarah Dessen Quotes
I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Is that a real country?
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.
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Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.
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A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.
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It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.
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I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
