John Steinbeck Quotes
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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I'm a real romantic.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
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If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
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The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
