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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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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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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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone.
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Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.
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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
