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.'
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
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: What do people think?What, do people think?
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Les hommes qui se sont occupés du bonheur des peuples ont rendu leurs proches bien malheureux.
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I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.
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No lady is ever a gentleman.
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.
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I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
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The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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'The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.'
