John Updike Quotes
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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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.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.
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There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
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The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
