John Updike Quotes
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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Let us have peace.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
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The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
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Big bangs don't make this. That's not a big bang. God made that. That's a liver. That's mystical. You and I can't make livers. Things banging don't make livers. This is mystical stuff. This is magic. This is perfection.
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But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink.
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
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It was a fun show. At one point the barricade in front of the stage gave way, which scared the concert promoters because they thought people were going to get hurt. So we had to stop the show for a while. That was funny... Although I guess only funny because no one got hurt.
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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.
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I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
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If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
