James Salter Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
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Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.
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There was James Burton, one of the greatest guitar players around, who played for Elvis years and years. Than there was another guitar player named Glenn Campbell just beginning with us. Billy Preston... he was one of the piano players. Leon Russell was in the band. He was another one of the piano players. We had a lot of people like that just beginning, not even getting any notoriety... they were just in the band and doing recording sessions.
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As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.
