Sarah Dessen Quotes
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.
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Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.
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You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.
