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Quotes by American Authors
"There is no try. There is only do."
"I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it."
"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness."
"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
"In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility."
"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."
"And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves."
"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go."
"A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate."
"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"
"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"
"Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!"
"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
"So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol."
"I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death."
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."
"When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important."
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
"I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once."
"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
"I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest."
"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
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