John Updike Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
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Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
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So high above all things that be. Is God uplifted, man can dare. No utterance: he prayeth best. When Silence is his sum of prayer
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
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You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.
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All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
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Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
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It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.
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Nothing good comes out of depression.
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Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
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The Light Company were not worried by the French. If Richard Sharpe wanted to lead them to Paris they would go, blindly confident that he would see them through
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He said of one or other eminent colleagues is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
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Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'
