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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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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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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Don't kill the golden goose.
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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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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκαθέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.
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Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call 'the art of medicine.'
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Soon enough you can say we made it up just for fun I guess to make a mess cause what’s more fun than other people’s hell
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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
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Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
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The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength.
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I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it's the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that's crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.
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The White House has been noticeably schizophrenic on Guantanamo.
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He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.
