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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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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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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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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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
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The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
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Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.
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He supposes they pretty much have the picture. Most people do, in life. People know more than they let on.
