J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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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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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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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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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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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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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
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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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I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.
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Portishead's production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there's this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like 'It's A Fire.' That's a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.
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If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of 'police brutality' which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's.
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Everybody's a nun.
