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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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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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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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 grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
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Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years.
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The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
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If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.
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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.
