J. D. Salinger Quotes
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.
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I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
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The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.
