J. D. Salinger Quotes
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I can always go back to education.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
