Gore Vidal Quotes

While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.

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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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Johannes Brahms

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When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

John Barrasso

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I've met Caucasians who are racist, but I've also heard black people say racist things.

John David Washington

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I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

Andie MacDowell

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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

John McGahern

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I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Amber Heard

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I'm the kind of person who will pull sheets out of magazines and print materials and put them in a book. That's me; I do that.

Sofia Richie

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New York is my favorite city to visit because there is always something to do, someone to meet, and something to discover.

Michael Seibel

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Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

Lisanne Falk

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Dinner and a movie is pretty great.

Joseph Morgan

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I do think that a school day that matches the work day makes a lot of difference for working families, but the big driver of this effort is education. Period. We have a lot of students not gaining the skills they need, and it is pretty clear that school does not offer enough time to get that job done.

Chris Gabrieli

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I don't hang my championship trophies on the walls, because they don't pay the bills.

Brock Lesnar

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