J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig -
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
Eckhart Tolle -
The words I overuse are all adverbs.
Sam Shepard -
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
Pankaj Mishra -
My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
Indra Nooyi -
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
Damon Albarn Blur
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Laughter drives shouting away.
Indra Devi -
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice -
The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
Bear Grylls -
He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan -
I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
Irina Shayk -
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Nathaniel Branden
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I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good.
Lara Stone -
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
Feist -
One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden -
I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
Victoria Moran -
Blown about with every wind of criticism.
Samuel Johnson
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And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.
Rachel Caine -
I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
Mario Van Peebles -
Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
Pierce Brosnan -
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
David Pilbeam -
The Nova Scotian black community always remembered Viola Desmond - they didn't lose track of her, ever. Her memory was very much alive there, but the rest of us didn't know anything about her. It's just so typical of Canadians that we know Rosa Parks, in that "bad country to the south of us" - they needed this lovely, courageous woman to sit down in the front of the bus - but we wouldn't know ours, because of course we "don't have racism in Canada."
Constance Backhouse -
'I never saw so many tigers.'
J. D. Salinger