J. D. Salinger Quotes
Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful.
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
