J. D. Salinger Quotes

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

J. D. Salinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

Topics

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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.

Jimmy Smits

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Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

Jet Li

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It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

John B. Larson

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I don't think of myself as a New York actor; I think about this guy who's an actor who happens to be from New York.

Jeremy Luke

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People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.

Robert Redford

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I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters.

Trent Franks

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The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Marty Meehan

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The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Mitch Kapor

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I am very emotional.

Luka Modric

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With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

Corey Taylor

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Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

Aubrey McClendon

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People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

Paul Theroux

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