J. D. Salinger Quotes
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
J. D. Salinger
Quotes to Explore
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
Brown Campbell
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
J. B. Smoove
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
Natalie Maines
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
Halsey
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
Tabatha Coffey
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I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.
Nargis Fakhri
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
Natasha Trethewey
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The American male runs half of the global world and grows up on rock music from day one. If you can alter the psyche of someone who's growing up to be a rapist or a total misogynist, you're creating values and instead of making the void bigger, you're making it smaller.
Courtney Love
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
Mason Cooley
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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm
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Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
J. D. Salinger
