James Salter Quotes

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

James Salter

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• Feeling

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

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• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

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• Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

  

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

  

  Tablo
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• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
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• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
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• So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Things
  • Working
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• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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  • Year

• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Attitude
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• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
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• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

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  • Song
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• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
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• I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  

  Venus Williams
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• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We americans have made jazz funny.

  

  Paul Provenza
  • America
  • Funny
  • Jazz

• This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
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• We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Respect
  • Same
  • Opinions

• I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
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• Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

  

  James Salter
  • America
  • Feeling