John Steinbeck Quotes
He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself.
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I get depressed at airports.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
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On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.
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I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself.
