J. D. Salinger Quotes
Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.
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Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
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Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
