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Quotes by American Authors
"All that violence in the world, we need to stop that."
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989."
"I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines."
"We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent."
"We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)."
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
"I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead."
"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
"In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids."
"Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world."
"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty " to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
"Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction -- Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn ... No -- Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it was what prayed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men."
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
"Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature's beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation."
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence."
"I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on."
"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
"Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."
"There are only two classes - first class and no class."
"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."
"I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones."
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."
"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
"Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories."
"We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve."
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