Quotes by American Authors

"It's whatever sells; it's the business of it."

Don Bluth, American Artist

Business,

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"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

James Ellroy, American Writer

Family, Dad, Mother, Thought, Crime

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"Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that."

Mike Ditka, American Coach

Change, Taste

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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Faith, Belief, May

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"The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Truth, Dream

1

"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

Bernard Berenson, American Historian

People,

1

"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

1

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

Family, Childhood, Mountains, Nothing, Summer

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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

George Washington, American President

Wisdom, Experience, Purpose, Errors, Past

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"All government, of course, is against liberty."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Government, Liberty

1

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Writing, Atoms, Universe

1

"In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community."

Jon Porter, American Politician

Community, Fact, States, United

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"One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them."

Andrew Tobias, American Journalist

Time, People

1

"To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Creativity, May, Open, Question

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"But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found."

Paul Engle, American Poet

Writing,

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"I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that."

Aaron McGruder, American Artist

Media, Flags, News, Want

1

"From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character."

Bill Frist, American Politician

Character, African, Americans, Blood

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"I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that."

Latrell Sprewell, American Athlete

Sports, Fans, Play, Style

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"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

Mind, Theater

1

"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."

Stephen M. Walt, American Educator

War, Policy, Now, Sense

1

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."

Henry George, American Economist

Power, Influence, Light, Man

1

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

Angela Davis, American Activist

Nation, Country, Needs, Politicians

1

"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."

Peter Bart, American Editor

Business, Disney, Entertainment, Intention

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"I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food."

John Blair, American Politician

Food, Meeting

1

"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Friendship, Peace, Policy, Mankind

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"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."

Sandra Cisneros, American Author

Peace, Clarity, Revenge, Violence

1

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."

Harry S. Truman, American President

Leadership, Leader, Boss, Party, Republican

1

"Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines."

Roger Ebert, American Critic

God, Freewill, Man, Play

1

"As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again."

Max Cannon, American Artist

Space,

1

"Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity."

Stephen Vincent Benet, American Poet

Honesty, Man, Self

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"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Life, Family, Sense

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"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power."

Oliver Stone, American Director

History, Power, People

1

"I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870."

John Harvey Kellogg, American Businessman

Church, Battle

1

"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author

Self-control, Horses, Sky

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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."

Merlin Olsen, American Athlete

Lie, Lies, Man, World

1

"Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed."

Neil LaBute, American Director

Man, Men, Company, Teaching

1

"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships."

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

God, Care, Mistakes, Relationships

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"I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered."

Martina Navratilova, American Athlete

People, Hope, Will

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"I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people."

Phil Crane, American Politician

Government, People, First, Rights

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"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."

Solomon Ortiz, American Politician

Peace, Americans, Crisis

1

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Want,

1

"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive."

Spike Lee, American Director

Love, Work, Women, People

1

"The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction."

Michael Moore, American Activist

Public Opinion, Americans, Majority, Weapons

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"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"

John Boehner, American Politician

Politics, Healthcare, President, Saying

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"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."

Frank Stella, American Artist

Art, Painting, Space

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"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Man, Mind

1

"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying."

Bill Condon, American Director

People,

1

"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

Life, Jobs

1

"You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first."

Katherine Harris, American Politician

Sports, First

1

"Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors."

Kenneth Noland, American Artist

Influence, Artists, Mentors