J. D. Salinger Quotes
There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.
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I don't need much coaxing.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you. Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.
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I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.
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I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
