John Updike Quotes
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?
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So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
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As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
