Gore Vidal Quotes

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.

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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I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

Jimmy Page

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I wanted to be in the police force, a teacher, a judge, lawyer, doctor, and other jobs. Of course, my mind changed as I started to face reality.

Ji Chang-wook

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Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

Jerry Weller

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I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again.

Jeremy Scott

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In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

Mechai Viravaidya

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My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we should have a culture of life. It's informed by my faith from beginning to end. And this not just as it related to unborn babies - I did it at the end of life issues as well. This is something that goes way beyond politics.

Jeb Bush

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They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

Robert Webb

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I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Ron Rash

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If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Marvin Harris

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I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.

Mitt Romney

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Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

Joseph Stiglitz

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