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John Updike Quotes

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New York City Rich You New Poor

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

Love Good Memories Me Mom Someone

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

John Lanchester

Think Strange Sound Scary Anything

I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

Father Business Myself Know My Own

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

Home Day Social Media Media Become

You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.

You Will Never Mean Out Guy

The House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee are investigating everything having to do with Russia, and I expect we will find there is nothing there when it comes to the Trump campaign.

Intelligence House Find Nothing Will

What I do is provide a quality product with a quality taste, that's sustainable, and present it with a proper price structure so when people see it on the shelves, they will want to try it.

Quality People Present Price Want

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Beautiful Romantic Woman Soul Wise

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Ride Childhood Climb Outdoors Trees

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

World Silly You Place New Chicago

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Men Problems Prison Behavior Acting

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Dreams Music Beginning People Me

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