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Quotes by American Authors
"Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice."
"George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none."
"If I do not love my fellow man, I can be sure of it that I do not love Jesus Christ. And I would do well if guilty of loving Jesus Christ even more than I love my fellow man, because only by this may I fully come to love my fellow man."
"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law."
"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
"And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco."
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
"I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
"When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing."
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
"Well married, a man is winged-ill-matched, he is shackled."
"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
"For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
"The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol."
"But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques."
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
"Perform without fail what you resolve."
"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
"Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood."
"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."
"I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn't need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence."
"To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment."
"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline."
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something."
"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."
"The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible."
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