John Updike Quotes
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
Mae West -
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso -
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush -
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg -
When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
Kat Graham -
I don't want to be on the Internet.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I do not cook.
Edie Falco -
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley -
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
Yves Behar -
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White -
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
J. B. Smoove -
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
S. Jay Olshansky
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov -
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Orson Welles -
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Gary Cole -
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
Gary Locke -
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
Gary Larson
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I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.
Elizabeth Mitchell -
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Daniel Kahneman -
There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Bill Bowerman -
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Mr Shimada 'Toyota does not enjoy bad games prayed with its ploduct.'
John Updike