Sarah Dessen Quotes
I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.Sarah Dessen
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
Mahershala Ali -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West -
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera -
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
Tammy Bruce -
The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
Kapil Dev -
I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal -
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz -
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge -
I couldn't care less about business.
Manolo Blahnik
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I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
Daniel Cormier -
Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
Garth Nix -
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
Lawyer -
I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean-once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.
Ai Weiwei -
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob Feller
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
Derek Jarman -
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty -
It's always helpful to pick our fans' brains to see what their favorite videos are and to figure out what the momentum of our channel is. Not just based on views or likes or dislikes, but anecdotally.
Charles Lincoln Neal -
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
Daniel H. Pink -
I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.
Jake Lloyd -
I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.
Sarah Dessen