John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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In its last moment, the whole of my life will last only a moment.
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I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
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It's totally fun to play troublemakers - totally.
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There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to a line of credit. Financial institutions in developing economies are broken and inefficient, and hard-working people have not been given the chance to establish a credit history.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
