J. D. Salinger Quotes

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.

  

  Raekwon
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Great
  • Together
  • Unknown

• Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Different
  • Live
  • Action

• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
  • Me
  • Always
  • Guest

• I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Friendships

• I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Doing

• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Internet

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Nature
  • Forgiveness

• I like talky scenes.

  

  Martin Freeman

• I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Good

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Different
  • Explore

• From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Up
  • Support
  • Confidence

• After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • May
  • Door