John Steinbeck Quotes
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
