Quotes by American/USA authors (page 31)

"Winners never quit and quitters never win"

"I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association"

"It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The fact is that violence gives you a rush"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Dare to risk public criticism"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

Og Mandino, Author

"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality"

Og Mandino, Author

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light"

Helen Keller, Author

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit"

Mason Cooley, Writer

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