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Quotes by American Authors
"Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny."
"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
"Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more."
"What's talent but the ability to get away with something?"
"I can't apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to."
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."
"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."
"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
"I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one."
"Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away."
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."
"But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past."
"...people don't take trips-trips take people."
"How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?"
"Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all."
"Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?"
"Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal."
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
"I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have."
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
"But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms."
"Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name."
"I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before."
"I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again, forever."
"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
"I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."
"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."
"I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car."
"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
"Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be."
"Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience."
"We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
"There is no escape-we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!"
"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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