J. D. Salinger Quotes
But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Writers are so important.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I don't even read positive reviews unless they are absolutely certified by eight different people to not contain one thing that could upset me.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.
