J. D. Salinger Quotes
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
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'People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?'
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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These Are the music of meet resignation; these The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you To magnify, if in that drifting waste You are to be accompanied by more Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.
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The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.
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A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that the fibres of goethite are just the right size to make up a resilient composite structure.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
