J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.
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I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
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Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'
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I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
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When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.
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When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
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Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.
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Everybody's a nun.
