John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Those who go along get along.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
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Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.
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I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.
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Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.
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Every lie haunts our future.
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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
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A man is a lonely thing.
