J. D. Salinger Quotes
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
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The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.
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You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.
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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
