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Quotes by American Authors
"Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her."
"I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record."
"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."
"In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age."
"I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience."
"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."
"Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do."
"Kathel, you have the face of a scoundrel.' Her eyes drifted slowly over his face and landed for a moment on his full lips. 'With lips created for sin.''Keirah,' he whispered, gently squeezing her hands. 'Talk like that is not helping matters."
"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
"Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms."
"We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now."
"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
"The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority."
"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."
"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
"I've been on so many blind dates I should get a free dog."
"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that."
"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
"Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible."
"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
"How then do you love each of your multiple children, if not the best or even equally? The answer is, you love them uniquely."
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
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