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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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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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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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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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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I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.
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The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
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There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.
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Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.
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There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.
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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.'
