John Updike Quotes
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
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She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellow'd to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.
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It’s never about me. My supporters use me as a mark for themselves to recognize their own form of life: I become their medium. I am always very clear about that.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
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I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
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The need for strong partners and employees persists throughout the life of a company, but it is especially important in the beginning.
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I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant or ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. Neurotics are heartless.
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I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.
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On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.
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Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
