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Quotes by American Authors
"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."
"I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it."
"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
"I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage."
"I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too."
"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
"Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those."
"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right."
"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."
"You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl."
"Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?"
"Constant repetition carries conviction."
"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."
"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
"My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend."
"A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war."
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls."
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."
"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
"If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much."
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."
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