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Quotes by American Authors
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."
"As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart."
"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
"In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular."
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
"One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
"I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it."
"The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one's advantage. They are, however, operated by us " by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?"
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others."
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut."
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."
"I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice."
"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
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