John Steinbeck Quotes
'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
Quotes to Explore
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?
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There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.
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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
