John Updike Quotes

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

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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Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.

Jennifer Holliday

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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

John Michael Hayes

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What nourishes me also destroys me.

Angelina Jolie

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As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Jeff Garlin

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I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

Jeff Lemire

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I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.

Michael Gerber

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If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Michael Stipe

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I don't really try too hard to be anything that I'm not.

Lucas Till

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I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

Johnny Weir

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You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them.

Doug Liman

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Every person who starts at Boxed does shifts at the fulfillment center. It doesn't matter if you are the general counsel or the COO.

Chieh Huang

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I am not nostalgic for the past.

Christian Lacroix

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