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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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
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I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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It's still stiff and still sore. It's the same as yesterday. I'm day to day.
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Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
