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Quotes by American Authors
"We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose."
"During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
"I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that."
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
"I'd crossed a border-Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her."
"I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television."
"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching."
"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against."
"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39."
"But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression."
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
"If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly."
"The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent."
"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"
"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own."
"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently."
"It wasn't because you weren't beautiful, talented, funny, creative or had everything in common. It was because some men prefer plain vanilla ice cream. It's predictable and a safe choice. Confident and adventurous men prefer the complexity and layers of a sundae, even the ones sprinkled with a little bit of nuts on top."
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
"I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that."
"When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers."
"Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer."
"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved."
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
"It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president."
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
"All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity."
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