Aaron Sorkin Quotes
Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.
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A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
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The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
