J. D. Salinger Quotes
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.
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Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
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If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
