I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKINNever argue with a drunk or a fool.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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