John Updike Quotes
The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.
John Updike
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
Ted Cruz
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
Rachel Sklar
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It's hard work to ensure that all schools are safe and welcoming places for all children. It means changing policies, practices and cultures; providing school support personnel; and funding programs like restorative justice - not simply resorting to excessive and often discriminatory discipline.
Randi Weingarten
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
Irene Dunne
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
Natascha McElhone
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
J. C. Watts
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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
Andie MacDowell
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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
Peter Higgs
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Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Founders are truly artists – they see something no one else does.v
Steve Blank
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The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.
John Updike
