J. D. Salinger Quotes
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
