John Updike Quotes
'I mean,' he says, 'how the hell do you think it feels? Sitting there and having the plane explode?'
John Updike
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
Mallory Jansen
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I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.
Patina Miller
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
Jack Keane
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This bikini made me a success.
Ursula Andress
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack Obama
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
Eden Sher
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I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
Gareth Gates
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I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
Gail Collins
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Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.
Lady Gaga
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The true architectural art, that art toward which I would lead you, rests, not upon scholarship but upon human powers; and, therefore, it is to be tested, not by the fruits of scholarship, but by the touch-stone of humanity.
Louis Sullivan
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Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.
William Wharton
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Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!
Coventry Patmore
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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
Donna Karan
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer
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A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
Ernest Rutherford
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'I mean,' he says, 'how the hell do you think it feels? Sitting there and having the plane explode?'
John Updike