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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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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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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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
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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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I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
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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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I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
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I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.
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Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow.
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When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
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My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
