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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Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.
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A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
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Everybody's a nun.
