J. D. Salinger Quotes
There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.
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I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.
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There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
