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Quotes by American Authors
"The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible."
"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."
"The feature that makes people look at her twice, sometimes with suspicious glances, is her eyes. They are too large, wide-set, slanted a bit. And they judge, those eyes do, they watch and they take note and they judge all that they see, and lots of folks do not like that much.To the innocent, her eyes are arresting. To a person with something on his conscience, they seem too knowing."
"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."
"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
"Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots."
"Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less."
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."
"One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem."
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man."
"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail."
"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'"
"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."
"Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"
"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
"Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family."
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
"Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning."
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
"I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here."
"I'm trying to think about the future and not be sad."
"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
"We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
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