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Quotes by American Authors
"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
"Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it."
"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
"I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!"
"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery."
"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away."
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."
"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role."
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
"Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . ."
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
"Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation teachers, and closed his eyes and narrowed his thoughts until his world shrunk down to a single breath, in and out, in and out."
"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius."
"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
"I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench."
"If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views."
"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation."
"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
"This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included."
"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."
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