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Quotes by American Authors
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Originality is the art of concealing your source."
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"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 won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"When preparing to climb a mountain - pack a light heart."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"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."
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."
"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."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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