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Quotes by American Authors
"We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart."
"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."
"I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined."
"I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?"
"Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame."
"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
"Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up."
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."
"I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied."
"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."
"But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."
"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement."
"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
"I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
"But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message."
"I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow."
"I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!"
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
"We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will."
"Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers."
"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."
"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
"No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying."
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."
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