John Updike Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India.
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It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
