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.
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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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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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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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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 do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.
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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.
