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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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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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.
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As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation... I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.
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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
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Forks often arise from differences of opinion in the direction of a project. And tokens are increasingly a mechanism for voting on changes to their protocols. Since the point of a fork is to try a new path, the new fork may not want to port all of the prior holders opposed to trying the new path the fork was created to take.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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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.
