“We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.”
Aphorisms http://books.google.com/books?id=BeEnAAAAYAAJ&q="We+are+so+vain+that+we+value+the+opinion+even+of+those+whose+opinions+we+find+worthless".
“We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.”
Aphorisms http://books.google.com/books?id=BeEnAAAAYAAJ&q="We+are+so+vain+that+we+value+the+opinion+even+of+those+whose+opinions+we+find+worthless".
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“Careful! We don't want anybody getting squished.”
admonition to dozens of children aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt before reading from her first children's book, "The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog" www.dailypress.com (September 15, 2006)
2007, 2008
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Introduction (1966)
Sometimes misquoted as: Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Mother Night (1961)
“Messages are like files. We don't care how it was created.”
The How and Why of Fitting Things Together
Source: The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002), p. 256