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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The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
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There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better.
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I hate chapped lips.
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When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.
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I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
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His voice is hurrying, to keep up with his brain.
