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Quotes by American Authors
"After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that."
"The truth of who you are and what you believe is projected in your behavior. Everything else, either positive or negative, is a mix of stories, lies, delusions, and manipulations."
"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."
"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."
"I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add."
"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change."
"Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected."
"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."
"Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid."
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
"The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game."
"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"
"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."
"Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world."
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
"ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked."
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."
"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine."
"Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective."
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
"A woman is soft, kind, and loving. When you are in danger, she is always ready to sacrifice herself to save you. So never forget to respect her."
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
"Harmony is our natural state of being, and so, when our energies become too stagnant, chaos is thrown into the mix to stimulate what will eventually result in balance and invite flow. The trick is to not let chaos trap or define you, simply allow it to create movement in the vehicle of your life so that you can snap your eyes open and take back control of the wheel. Do not lose yourself in the storm, instead, be the calm in the storm."
"On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people's successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us."
"I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist."
"To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest."
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