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 always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
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Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you will never have real wealth based on peace of mind.
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I have always dealt with economic forces, rather than philosophic forces, but you can't split history into neat little non-overlapping divisions. For instance, religions tend to accumulate wealth when successful and that eventually tends to distort the economic development of a society.
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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.
