Sarah Dessen Quotes
"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."
