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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.