Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
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I don't have answers. I have questions.
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I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
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It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
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When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.
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After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.
