John Updike Quotes
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
John Updike
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
Adam Driver
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
Vicki Lawrence
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When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
Barkhad Abdi
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
Edmund White
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
Zayn Malik
One Direction
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'Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.' 'Which is where?' 'To a responsible future in a properly managed world.'
Dean Koontz
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
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Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.
Delmore Schwartz
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I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.
David Zucker
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In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.
Mark Feuerstein
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
John Updike