Upton Sinclair Quotes

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

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• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

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• I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.

  

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  

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• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

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• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

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• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

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• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

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• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

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• It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.

  

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• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

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• Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

  

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• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

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• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

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• You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

  

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• All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art