J. D. Salinger Quotes
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it's always up to the person watching it.
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It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
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Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
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Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
