John Updike Quotes
'Things change,' says Mr Shimada. 'Is world's sad secret.'
John Updike
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
Pardis Sabeti
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Damien Hirst
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
Harry Browne
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As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
Laura Dekker
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
Peter Bergen
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
Brittany Howard
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler Yeats
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'Things change,' says Mr Shimada. 'Is world's sad secret.'
John Updike