John Updike Quotes
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
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I'm interested in form, in the shape of things. And in commitment to the degree of never letting go the quest for the meaning of things. That can come off as beauty and style, but that's not where I start from.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
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And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
