John Steinbeck Quotes
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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You're playing touch-butt with that dork in park, the pony tail.
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I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
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I own more pairs of Calvin Klein underwear than I can count. At any given time, I probably have 50 to 60 pairs on deck. I travel with an entire suitcase of underwear and t-shirts, and they're all Calvin Klein.
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To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
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I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
