J. D. Salinger Quotes
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years. Would we know we were together?
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Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
