John Steinbeck Quotes
He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
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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.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?
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I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.
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Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.
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A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
