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.
Naftali Bennett -
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.
Carlo Ponti -
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
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.
Magnus Magnusson -
I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
Carlene Carter -
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.
Harold Pinter
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
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.
Indra Nooyi -
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.
Camille Paglia -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Ted Sarandos -
When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
Paige Craig -
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
Kate Brown -
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady -
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.
Adam Wainwright -
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
Courtney Thorne-Smith -
Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
Mac DeMarco -
Life is noise.
John Updike