J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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I cried when I was drafted by Buffalo... You can't be a great quarterback in snow and 30 mile-an-hour wind.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.
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People never notice anything.
