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Quotes by American Authors
"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death."
"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
"The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science."
"Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff."
"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."
"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
"Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!"
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
"Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed."
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
"In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended."
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."
"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."
"I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable."
"Let's agree to be honest from the start. I would rather feel the disappointment that comes with the realization that we are incompatible than to feel the pain and betrayal that comes with finding out that you're full of crap."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others."
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