J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
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People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad.
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I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.
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People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
