Sarah Dessen Quotes
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.Sarah Dessen
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
Callum McDougall -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery -
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
Vanessa Carlton
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
Hans Blix -
I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
Lake Bell -
I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
Carly Fiorina
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
Karen Salmansohn -
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
Nancy Lublin -
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
Naomi Klein
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
Pat Buchanan -
Australia is always a place that is dear to me; it is always my second home, and I try to get there as often as I can, but it is not next door, you know.
Garfield Sobers -
I miss being governor.
Jeb Bush -
I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
Chris Kyle -
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
Sarah Dessen