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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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 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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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.
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I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
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I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
