Stephanie Perkins Quotes
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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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.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
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I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.
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He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.
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Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.
