John Updike Quotes
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
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The liquor tasted good and here the women all were fast...You can't jump a jet planeLike you can a freight trainSo I'll best be on my wayIn the early morning rain
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It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.
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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
