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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• 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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Opportunities

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• 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.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Food
  • Short

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Right
  • OK

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Business
  • America
  • Never

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• I hyperventilate quite a lot.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Lot
  • Quite

• 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.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Age
  • Me

• If I wasn't Eddie Albert's son, I'd be someone else's. It gave me a chance to do a lot of traveling, but mostly I'm glad I'm his son because he's such a good man.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Man
  • Son

• When we heard the verdict, it became a very emotional day for my client. When I left him, he was getting in the car with his brother and was still crying out of joy.

  

  Willie Davis
  • Joy
  • Client
  • Verdict

• I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

  

  John Kessel
  • Good
  • Real
  • Regret

• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • State
  • Impermanence

• 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.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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