John Steinbeck Quotes
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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I enjoy money.
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When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.
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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
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I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.