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Quotes by American Authors
"A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp."
"Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now."
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."
"It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more."
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
"An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind."
"I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does."
"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
"I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break."
"Following Jesus is a verb."
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
"We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one's self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace."
"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."
"Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
"I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard.""Well, that's your mistake, not mine."
"The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80."
"Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days."
"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
"Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones."
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
"You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
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