John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.
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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport
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I knew that even though he was way into mood-altering substances and he had this really bad temper that there was something really beautiful inside him. Just because no one else could see it didn't mean it wasn't there.
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He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.
