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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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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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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Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so.
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The Bible teaches clearly that compromise destroys! We need to return to the authority of God's Word and its answers.
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His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.
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Notre Dame is the only team in the country that never plays a road game.
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'You are cynical.'
