John Steinbeck Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
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I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.
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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
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My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.
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All of the universe will be divided into two parts.
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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.