John Steinbeck Quotes
You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.
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Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.
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You watch your place, nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.
