Sarah Dessen Quotes
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.
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We must understand that what Pascal said is true of every human being in the whole of space-time, ourselves included-'The last act is tragic, however pleasant all the comedy of the other acts. A little earth on our heads, and all is done with forever.'-understand it in our bones, so that we can live with it calmly if not serenely.
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I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
