Gore Vidal Quotes

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

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Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Andy Stanley

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There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.

Sid Waddell

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The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Marty Robbins

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I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.

Luke Benward

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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Joseph Butler

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My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

Dirk Nowitzki

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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

Deborah Harkness

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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

David Shields

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The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

Chris Abani

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We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!

William Petersen

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I started playing futsal in the favela because it was the closest pitch to where we lived. I think it was good for me, playing in a small space like that. You have to think and act quickly.

Philippe Coutinho

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