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Gore Vidal Quotes

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Money Tax Russia Twenty Ten

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

John Henry Patterson

Business Men Survive Serve Must

I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Live Truth Mind World Rich Thinking

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

Tom Hulce

World Internet Be True True Write

I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

Matisyahu

Music College Fall Acting Everything

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Lois Wyse

Mother Children Day Grandchildren

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

Denis Leary

Basketball Up Where Used Courts

We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.

Debi Mazar

Winter Mother Woman Husband Wine Go

My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks to my grandfather's older sister, who had immigrated between the wars.

Chrystia Freeland

Family Mother Sister Born Canada

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Brent Spiner

Business Today People You Look Up

When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wasn't an actor. But Cecil Pickett molded me and taught me.

Brett Cullen

Past Me Hair Actor Up Geek

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

Phil Lesh

Music Grateful Giving Finding Way

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

Time Silence Deep Speech Eternity