Gore Vidal Quotes

As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use.

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 can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

Jenson Button

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All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke

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Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades.

Steve King

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I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

Stephen Hawking

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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Michael Ondaatje

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I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

Michael Lehmann

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I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Lucy Stone

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I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname.

Dick Lane

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We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

Debbie Millman

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Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Debby Ryan

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Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.

David Weinberger

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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

Alison Krauss

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