John Updike Quotes

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

Matthew Ramsey

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America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Alveda King

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He preaches well that lives well.

Miguel de Cervantes

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People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Michael Schur

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I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

Michael Moore

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I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Louis Sachar

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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.

Diplo

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I auditioned at the Radisson in Knoxville, and I just did what I always do. I just try to believe what I'm doing.

Brad Renfro

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I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

Brandi Carlile

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It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Brian P. Cleary

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When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

Anne Hathaway

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

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