John Updike Quotes
'The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.'
John Updike
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I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.
Gavrilo Princip
I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
Samantha Power
I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
Padma Lakshmi
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
Yehuda Amichai
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Oscar Isaac
Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.
Amy Tan
People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
George Eliot
The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.
Ajit Pai
David Karp is just incredibly special. I like to think that I’m good at empathy, but I will say that David Karp is just incredibly empathetic and really in tune with the community of people that he has, that are contributing and creating on Tumblr.
Marissa Mayer
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
Adam Rapp
'The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.'
John Updike
