John Updike Quotes
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My father is an amazing person.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
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When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
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Your children's losing battle with time seems even sadder than your own.
