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John Updike Quotes

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

Dreams Your Dreams Man You Human

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Maureen Dowd

Greatness World Him Intellect Means

I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.

Jeff Perry

Me Theatre Makeup Back Way Started

I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

Jeffree Star

Love Personality Me Makeup Doing

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

Steve Jones

Mother Home Girl Me Kind She

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

Rob Glaser

Great Day Think End Of The Day End

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

Passion Authority Symbols Inventions

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Joshua Lederberg

Me Stop Know Something Fact Subject

Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion and was almost unbelievably permissive.

Josh Gondelman

Religion Parent Diet Grandfather She

The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

Jonathan Kozol

Separation Class Racial Niche Effect

I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.

Johnny Van Zant

Brother Name Want Band Lead Singer

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

Diane Lane

Memory People Think Short Feel Like

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

DeRay Mckesson

Love Man I Am City Me Made