John Steinbeck Quotes
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Quotes to Explore
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
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With 'Black Panther,' it was like stepping up to the plate, working crazy hours, and still bringing your best to the table every time.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
