J. D. Salinger Quotes
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
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Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
