John Steinbeck Quotes
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
Quotes to Explore
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.
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... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
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As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.
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I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
