James Salter Quotes
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.
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When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.
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Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
