John Updike Quotes
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
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Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.
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But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
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I'm not a quitter - never have been.
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I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.
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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
