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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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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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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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
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The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
