John Steinbeck Quotes
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I never read the tabloids.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I'm a storyteller – that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
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The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
