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Quotes by American Authors
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
"Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough."
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."
"You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself."
"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people."
"If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them."
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
"There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads."
"There was only one option left, and it was letting go."
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
"Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues."
"The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
"I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten."
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."
"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
"I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing."
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
"Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?"
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
"I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement."
"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."
"My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent."
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
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