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Quotes by American Authors
"And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security."
"My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small."
"Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut."
"I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time."
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."
"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so."
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
"It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
"Be simple but think great to be great."
"A life without God is like a boat without an anchor."
"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories."
"Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you."
"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
"The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."
"Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency."
"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet."
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
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