John Steinbeck Quotes
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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We take pride in what we do.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character
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I have to be creative to be happy.
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So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
