Upton Sinclair Quotes

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

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• I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

  

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

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• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

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• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

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• I find celebrity really scary.

  

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• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  

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• Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.

  

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• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

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• My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

  

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• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

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• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

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• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

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• I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!

  

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• That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

  

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• Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

  

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• You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Trying
  • America
  • Years