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Thomas Steinbeck Quotes

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

Thomas Steinbeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1944 - August 11, 2016

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Father Man Ideas Genius Fools Like

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Father Community Money Men Brother

When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous.

Jeremy Robinson

Day Me Fat Result Circumstances Eat

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

Me Carry Used Poems About German

I've never been a waif; I have a womanly figure and always did.

Never Always Been Did Figure

I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland.

Love Politics Fun Say More Anything

The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

Brother Sister Face Relationships

The idea of doing a buffer, sexier Riddler - I like that. I think he's a reflection of Batman, and I think of him like a scary, evil Batman. Like Bruce Wayne without a conscience.

Reflection Evil Think Doing Scary

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

Best Way Write Animation Watch Read

I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when I started my company 22 years ago, apart from a few differently textured foundations.

Person Company Same Years Pretty

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

Coaching You Coach Position Get

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.

Business Music Money People Singing

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

Communication Heart Woman Man More

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