John Cheever Quotes
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Of course The Exorcist changed my entire life. I don't think there are very many people that will have the experience of sitting in this room, doing a job, and the next thing you know you've been on every television camera around the world, and people are they're frightened of you.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
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I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
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The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
