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John Updike Quotes

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Marriage Teacher Peasant Learner

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Moment Fashion Strong Know Why May

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

Life Heart Health Simple People

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Police Support City Safety Law

Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.

Stef Wertheimer

History Thinking Agriculture Jewish

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work Family Mother Son School High

I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.

Molly Crabapple

Women Art Men Past Think Someone

The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Values New Responsible Human Need

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Ride Think Enjoy You I Think Thing

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

Happy Night Grow Doing You Circle

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Evil Human Extraordinary Human Beings

Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'

Work Hero Day Government Growing Up

It's important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.

Claudio Ranieri

Performance Go Important Out Make

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