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Quotes by American Authors
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
"I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
"It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different."
"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."
"I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in."
"I'm a slow walker but I never walk back."
"I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out."
"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
"What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans - small and large, crude and multifaceted - that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at."
"To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back."
"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ."
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
"An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth."
"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."
"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
"My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."
"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."
"It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe."
"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."
"Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down."
"Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them."
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
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