Sarah Dessen Quotes
Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
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Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
