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Quotes by American Authors
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
"One man with courage makes a majority."
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
"You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty."
"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news."
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
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