John Updike Quotes
Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
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'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.
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Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.
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I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.
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Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
