John Updike Quotes

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati.

Jim Jordan

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In the country of pain we are each alone.

May Sarton

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Rita Dove

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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.

Ron White

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

Judy Biggert

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My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

Clairo

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I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

Brian Lamb

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I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Willie Stargell

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People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

Sheryl Sandberg

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As actors, we're a little faster than other people with breaking down the walls.

Paula Malcomson

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I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

Sean Lennon

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