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 really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
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I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
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I don't really like vegetables. But I'll eat them.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.
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People never notice anything.
