John Steinbeck Quotes
If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.
John Steinbeck
Quotes to Explore
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
Tasha Smith
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian
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The biggest killer of people is food.
Fat Joe
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
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Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich, and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.
Kumail Nanjiani
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I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
John C. McGinley
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
Ralph Peters
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When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
William Shatner
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If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.
John Steinbeck