John Steinbeck Quotes
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I do not seek. I find.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
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I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
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I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.
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The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
