John Steinbeck Quotes
He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
John Steinbeck
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
Barbara Bush
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
Oliver North
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
Francesco Totti
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.
Ava DuVernay
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[ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.
C. S. Lewis
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I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.
Patrick Marber
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
John Steinbeck
