John Updike Quotes
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
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Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
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I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
