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Quotes by American Authors
"I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting."
"When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother."
"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"
"Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive."
"I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic."
"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
"There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!"
"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."
"In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard."
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich."
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."
"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
"America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to."
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago."
"To gain greater understanding, clarity, and awareness, you must become aware of your values and beliefs. Think of a triangle or an iceberg. Below the waterline, your beliefs and your values build the foundation for your behavior."
"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity."
"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity."
"A new concept of god: "something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories plus a few other things equaled god. And by that all they meant was that here were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe. Laws of nature that apply not just locally, not just in Glasgow, but far beyond: Edinburgh, Moscow, Mars, the center of the Milky Way, and out by the most distant quarters known. That the same laws of physics apply everywhere is quite remarkable. Certainly that represents a power greater than any of us."
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
"Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own."
"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
"'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."
"Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future."
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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