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Quotes by American Authors
"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year."
"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country."
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."
"I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any."
"If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bare feet, blue skies above, rain on my face, and freedom... freedom to make a difference, freedom to be me. Pull out your butterfly net and remind me of these things, and most of all... your undying love."
"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
"Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem."
"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
"I love playing to people and seeing them react."
"A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future."
"Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?"
"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night."
"He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech."
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
"The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks-we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
"I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!"
"Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of my son's action."
"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
"All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?"
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