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Quotes by American Authors
"The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things."
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
"I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players."
"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."
"I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile."
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists."
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
"There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong."
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
"But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action."
"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."
"With dates I like to cater a girl. We do whatever she likes. If she was open to what I wanted to do, it probably wouldn't be a dull date, because I am a jock."
"When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true."
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."
"Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends-maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be."
"I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."
"We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going."
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."
"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."
"Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they're choosing to live disappointed."
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
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