31 Aaron Sorkin Quotes That Will Help You Think Smartly
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born
Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
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If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. (Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
Good writers borrow. The best writers steal.
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
You know you really don’t need a forensic team to get to the bottom of this.
 order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge. ){kind=small}
There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
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By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not. (Joshua Malina, Sports Night)
You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.
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In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women. (Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
I think mostly about intention and obstacle somebody wants something somethings standing in their way of getting it.
