John Updike Quotes
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!
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I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it's beautiful.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.
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Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.
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Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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There's more to being a human being than having your own way.
