John Updike Quotes
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.John Updike
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
Laura Schlessinger -
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin -
I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga -
I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
Foster Friess
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
Yvonne Strahovski -
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch -
I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.
Yelawolf -
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney Frank -
With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
Daniel Bryan -
I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
Barney Frank
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The world is a force not a presence.
Wallace Stevens -
The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
Anita Sarkeesian -
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein -
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
Chevy Chase -
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
Douglas Brinkley -
I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
Jim McDermott
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
John W. Gardner -
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
Mayim Bialik -
Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?
Neil Cavuto -
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.
Erich Maria Remarque -
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike