John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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Stay in your heart.
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Your life is the same wherever you go.
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It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
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Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.
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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
