John Steinbeck Quotes
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda ('Truth') and Izvestia ('News'), was 'There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!'
Garry Kasparov -
My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'
