John Updike Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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I was a dancer, growing up, and I definitely thought that was going to be my profession.
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I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
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No question about that, the radicals are in charge.
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Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.
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His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.
