Sarah Dessen Quotes
You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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I've managed to get some beautiful bags. I have a great collection, and so does my mother. My favourite is a purple one by Gucci, which I take everywhere!
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I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.
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I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.
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Most of the quarterbacks I've dealt with when they're young have had setbacks.
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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
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The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.
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I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.
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Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
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Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
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I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
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A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
