John Updike Quotes
We hope the 'real' person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.
Quotes to Explore
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I never lie to my fans.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Zero gravity is such an alien environment - completely different from everything we've grown up with every single day of our lives. And it's incomprehensible how much better it was than I anticipated it would be.
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We hope the 'real' person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.
