J. D. Salinger Quotes
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I want to marry after traveling alone, meeting many people, and experiencing a variety of things, and when I'm certain I can be responsible of myself.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I'm kind of fascinated by Paula Deen. I've been to her restaurant, The Lady and Sons, in Savannah. My friend was studying in the area, and we ate at her restaurant, and it was right at the cusp where Paula Deen became Paula Deen.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
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Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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I'm interested in directing, but it's a real headache. Directing can be a real pain in the ass, because you not only have to worry about yourself, but all these other people coming to you with their problems. I like just worrying about myself.
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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
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To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.
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My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
