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Quotes by American Authors
"Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to."
"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."
"There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater."
"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
"It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here."
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
"The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility."
"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"The schools ain't what they used to be and never was."
"I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft."
"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea."
"Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult."
"It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing."
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."
"Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow."
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
"But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving to make a difference when no difference could possibly be made. It was like dipping a stick into the ocean and trying to write something " all the little people of the world spinning out little patterns that lasted no more than a few years, and meant nothing at all."
"The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny."
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
"But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust."
"It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose."
"The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science."
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
"I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs."
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