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Quotes by American Authors
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president."
"Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts."
"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out."
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
"You think the things you can touch and feel are the things that are real, but they are not. Over time, they all get old and decline. The people, the houses, the rocks and the mountains: one day they will all crumble. This is because they are not as real as the things that last forever. It is another one of the lessons we come to teach."
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
"I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken."
"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."
"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun."
"While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland."
"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."
"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."
"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others."
"Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human."
"Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed."
"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
"You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls."
"I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it."
"I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some."
"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."
"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
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