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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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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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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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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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.'
