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Quotes by American Authors
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds."
"We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first."
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."
"The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."
"Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust."
"American corporations hate to give away money."
"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."
"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."
"I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom."
"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."
"People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them."
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."
"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
"Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
"If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?"
"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
"Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking."
"If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"
"Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics."
"Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself."
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."
"Having an aim is the key to achieving your best."
"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success."
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