Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

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• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

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• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

  

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• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

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• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

  

  Zachary Quinto
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• I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• You'll be free or die!

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

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• Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.

  

  Zhang Jindong
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• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  

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• My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

  

  Ann Brashares
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• The 'Bourne' franchise means the world to me. I love that Universal wants to put one out every two years. Because it is a safe investment, I benefit from that on many levels.

  

  Doug Liman
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• In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

  

  James Surowiecki
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• I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy