John Updike Quotes
Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I am a Zionist.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
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I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.
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People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.
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Nelson wonders why, no matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong – you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
