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Quotes by American Authors
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
"But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working."
"The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department."
"We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so."
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."
"There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side."
"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
"George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil."
"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
"You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree to diagnose people. We all have crazy running through our blood and so many things trigger that. We all struggle with our anxiety and twisted issues. Defamation of character is not kind, nor Christlike. Because when you label people with self righteous vindication you open the door to the very idea that self righteousness is itself a disorder that we should all be afraid of. This doorway when left open too long gets people to pull away from Christ, not run to him."
"When you give people a choice, they believe they have power."
"Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."
"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
"War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven."
"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
"Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable."
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
"The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it."
"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince."
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it."
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
"If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said."
"You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. "Ahh, how to be happy?"
"In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah."
"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."
"I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad."
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