John Steinbeck Quotes
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
