Aaron Sorkin Quotes
The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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These activities are causing significant emotional distress to the victims. In some, they are resulting in increasing reports of suicide. In many cases, it contributes to depression, school avoidance and myriad other consequences related to emotional abuse.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
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The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
