"If you have the guts to be yourself,……" — John Updike
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal…
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior…
— Alec Baldwin
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I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust…
— Bryan Adams
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I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not…
— Mary J. Blige
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have…
— Ray Bradbury
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I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I…
— Richard Branson
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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
— Bear Bryant
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There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
— Sandra Bullock
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Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
— Paula Abdul
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I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.
— Graydon Carter
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