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Quotes by American Authors
"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent."
"We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem."
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."
"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."
"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."
"Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around."
"I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!"
"Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river."
"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
"It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff."
"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."
"I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear."
"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."
"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."
"I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher."
"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
"Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership."
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
"George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that."
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
"I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades."
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
"We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet."
"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
"My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised."
"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
"I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
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