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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People trash talk me.
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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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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
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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.'
