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Quotes by American Authors
"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
"There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works."
"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
"The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today."
"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
"If you're not progressing, you're falling behind."
"When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now."
"Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful."
"So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old."
"Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing."
"I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin."
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
"I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out."
"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."
"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
"A house divided cannot stand."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys."
"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."
"The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery."
"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
"Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad."
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
"You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with."
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."
"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame."
"Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods."
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