J. D. Salinger Quotes
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.
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I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
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A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
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People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.
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If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
