John Updike Quotes
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion. I-i-i-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it. You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
