Sarah Dessen Quotes
This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.
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We can't ask for more. It's a lot of fun.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.
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This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.
