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Quotes by American Authors
"I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet."
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!"
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language."
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
"This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America."
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
"I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say."
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