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.John Updike
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
Iris Apfel -
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.
Aaron Staton -
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley Hall -
I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
Tamara Ecclestone -
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.
Dana Carvey -
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.
Ada Yonath
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
Tammy Duckworth -
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.
Faith Hill -
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.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
Eden Hazard -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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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.
Dan Gilbert -
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.
Barack Obama -
I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
Waris Ahluwalia -
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner -
Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
Oscar Wilde -
The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
Daniel Bell
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Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.
Charles Baudelaire -
The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
Jay-Z -
I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
Victor Hugo -
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John Updike