When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don´t go. I´m too worried to go. I don´t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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JACLYN SMITH I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. ALAIN PROST I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ROGERS HORNSBY I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money. ABBEY CLANCY I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next. CHRIS COOPER I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey. MAHALIA JACKSON I don't want to be rude, but I'm not that social. When I say, 'I never go out,' I me... EMILY RIOS I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. ERIC RIPERT When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to... MEREDITH MONK I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an... ALBERT FINNEY I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I&... DEMI LOVATO It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. 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TAYLOR SWIFT I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot. CYNDI LAUPER I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when... KASKADE When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan sai... DAMIAN WOETZEL I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what... KELLI O'HARA I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i... LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s... HARLAND WILLIAMS I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever... BOB UECKER I just dress how I wanna dress. 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SALINGER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi... J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable... J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ... J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ... J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa... J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it. J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—... J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l... J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev... J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin... J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout... J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it. J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons! J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package. J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th... J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say... J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t... J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo... J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the... J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw... J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt... J.D. SALINGER If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right. J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ... J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o... J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ... J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true. J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you... J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd... J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does. J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. PIERRE SALINGER