John Steinbeck Quotes
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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People are digging into house music even from other genres.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.
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In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
