John Updike Quotes
He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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What keeps me going is my children.
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Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
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Washington is totally out of touch with mainstream America.
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I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
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You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.
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He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.
