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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Think and grow rich.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You'll be free or die!
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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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.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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I want people to know that I appreciate every piece of music they buy and every concert ticket because that's what keeps this going. Knowing that people are coming to the shows and enjoying my music makes every long day worth it.
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My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.
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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
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Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
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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.
