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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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
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Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
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You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity 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.
