Sarah Dessen Quotes
If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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I am working again on my painting 'Moscow' 'Moscow I' ('Mockba I'), 1916. It is slowly taking shape in my imagination. And what was in the realm of wishing is now assuming real forms. What I have been lacking with this idea was depth and richness of sound, very earnest, complex, and easy at the same time.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
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My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
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If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
