John Updike Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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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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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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The socialist revolution was a pure and simple question of ‘force.’… Between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat no accord is possible. One must disappear. The weaker will be ‘eliminated.’ The class struggle is therefore a question of ‘force.’
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At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
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Life is noise.
