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"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
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"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."
"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
"Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams."
"I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future."
"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
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"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter."
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise."
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