John Updike Quotes
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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Not only do I not drive, I don't have my driver's license; there's a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Pakistan never valued Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan saab until English songwriter Peter Gabriel started collaborating with him. After that, the country suddenly realised that they have an amazing talent. This is the story of a lot of artistes there.
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In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
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The important thing is not the spokesman, but what the spokesman says, and what the countries will say.
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New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.
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Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
