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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."
"I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it."
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"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."
"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."
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
"The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits-a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
"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."
"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."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"I want you to do it right as fast as you can, not fast as right as you can."
"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."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"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."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
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