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Gore Vidal Quotes

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Place Everyone Come Only Who Hopes

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Me World You Know Important Say

Chicago fans cheer and boo who they want. They're great fans whether they like me or not. They show you how they feel. I don't like crowds that sit on their hands.

Great Me Feel Hands You Want

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Government People Tax Elite Take

I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.

Live Myself Day Balance Excuses

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Angela Duckworth

Free Motivation Choose Choice Three

Basically, I try to look at everything I do as a stretch.

Look Try Everything Stretch

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

Change World Criticism Want See Big

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

Alive Want Living Keep

I'm not a diver. I know that.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Alfredo Stroessner

Power Justice Think Independence

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Job Like Characters Played Lot

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Child Disappointment Ambition Never

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