J. D. Salinger Quotes
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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Denn der Kapitalismus ist schon in der Grundlage aufgehoben durch die Voraussetzung, daß der Genuß als treibendes Motiv wirkt, nicht die Bereicherung selbst.
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If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
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I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.
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I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
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I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.
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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
