Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won't stand up for other people.


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ARIEL SHARON
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE
I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
SHARON DRAPER
I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a...
SHARON DRAPER
With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w...
SHARON DRAPER
I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
SHARON DRAPER
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER
I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER
I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do...
SHARON DRAPER
I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platfo...
SHARON DRAPER
When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES
You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
SHARON BEGLEY
Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON
And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christ...
SHARON GLESS
But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
SHARON GLESS
The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON
What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON
The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON
The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON
We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON
It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON
The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON
Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON
Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON
By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON
I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE
Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE
As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a...
SHARON JONES
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON
Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outwa...
SHARON BOLTON
As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for g...
SHARON STONE
The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE
Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON
Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON