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'm obsessed with coffee.
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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The idea that God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia, and he’s able to write this down perfectly and it contains the answers to all - don’t waste my time with that bulls**t. Also, the archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic, it seems? Crap.
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People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!
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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.
