John Updike Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Acting is in your soul.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Everything can be satirized.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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I'm a proud family man.
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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
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When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.
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We are most alive when we’re in love.
