John Updike Quotes
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John Updike
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
Gary Oldman
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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.
Abu Bakr
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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.
Zeljko Ivanek
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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.
A. S. Byatt
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Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
Samuel Johnson
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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.'
Edgar Allan Poe
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O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,For I wish to be purged of an urge.It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.
Ogden Nash
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Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.
Rebecca Romijn
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There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.
Alessandro Michele
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
John Updike