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Quotes by American Authors
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
"As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections."
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage."
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
"Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes."
"Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."
"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm."
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
"When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film."
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
"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."
"Even the strongest man needs friends."
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
"I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time."
"We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet the monuments and cultures of each of our civilizations merely represent different ways of being human. An extraterrestrial visitor, looking at the differences among human beings and their societies, would find those differences trivial compared to the similarities."
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
"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."
"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
"I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful."
"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death."
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