John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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People work hard.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
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I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
