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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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
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My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.