John Updike Quotes
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I never lie to my fans.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
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Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.
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Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.For one swallow does not makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
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Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
