J. D. Salinger Quotes

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

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• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • School
  • Drama

• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Talk

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Work
  • Say
  • Majority

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• 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.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Play
  • Film
  • Actress

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Care
  • Win
  • Gold

• 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.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Privilege

• I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • New
  • Going
  • Intern

• 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.'

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • School

• 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.'

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Power

• Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?

  

  Don Rickles
  • Time
  • Live
  • Food

• The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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