J. D. Salinger Quotes
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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No two wars are identical.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
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You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.
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If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
