Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.
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There is no such thing as an ugly girl.
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A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
