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Quotes by American Authors
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
"It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right."
"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
"I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again."
"I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!"
"Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do."
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
"My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it."
"If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!"
"Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days."
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
"It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future."
"Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil."
"In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored."
"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."
"I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force."
"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
"I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive."
"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."
"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."
"The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony."
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
"I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now."
"Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?"
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