John Updike Quotes
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.John Updike
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
Barbara Corcoran -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra -
I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
Oksana Baiul -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul -
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Wendy O. Williams -
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Sam Trammell -
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
Maeve Binchy -
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
Zac Efron
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
Taki Theodoracopulos -
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham -
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
Jack Hanna -
The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
Raghuram Rajan -
After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
Naoto Kan -
I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
Dambisa Moyo
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Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
Ben Barnes -
After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.
King George V -
It is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one's very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgment and observation are required. But the effect is just the opposite. Instead of producing a dissipated condition, the mind is fertilized and stimulated and developed like sun-fed plants.
John Muir -
This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose.
Marc Faber -
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
John Updike