Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.
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I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.
