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Quotes by American Authors
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."
"Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday."
"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
"When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before."
"I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do."
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
"I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me."
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
"I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me."
"Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good."
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
"I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore."
"I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man."
"I don't want little kids reading my comics."
"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."
"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."
"Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along."
"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"
"Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination."
"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."
"People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property."
"What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance."
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'."
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
"Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar."
"My philosophy is to make things that are important and to do them right."
"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore."
"When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain."
"We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose."
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