"Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important."

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Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.238, Penguin

Karen White

#Important Quotes #Needs Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.”
“I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.”

Source : Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. May 8, 2008.
“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”

Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.
“Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.”
“My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.”
“There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something.”
“The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short - he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.”
“What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.”

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