John Updike Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
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We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.
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Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
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I'm at a point where I'm going where the journey leads me. I've set goals but I don't get really hung up if I don't achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?
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By understanding evolution as the expression of universal intelligence, now becoming conscious of itself within us, and as us, we overcome the dichotomy between current evolutionists who see no design in evolution, and creationists who often propose and anthropomorphic God as creator.
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'You are cynical.'
