John Updike Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
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He didn't have a worry in the world back then. He was in paradise and didn't know it.
