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Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Total quotes: 74
“There's two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: laws and sausages.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: Five Votes Down
Tagged: see, People, Product, Law, sausages
“Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Commencement Address at Syracuse University, 2012
Tagged: Graduation, Commencement Speeches, Words Of Encouragemnet
“Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being ‘the fresh voice of an outsider’ who’s going to ‘shake things up.’”
— Aaron Sorkin, Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President
Tagged: Election 2016
“We all need some therapy, because someone came along and said 'liberal' means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on communism, soft on defense and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age, because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to.”
— Bruno Gianelli, The West Wing, Season 3: Gone Quiet
Tagged: therapy, Liberal, Crime, Soft, defense, Tax
“The military wasn't designed to be a unit of social change. Problem with that is, that's what they were saying about me 50 years ago. Blacks shouldn't serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it.”
— Percy Fitzwallace, The West Wing, Season 1: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
Tagged: Military, unit, Social Change
“The streets of heavens are too crowded with angels. But every time we think we've measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes.”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 4: 20 Hours in America
Tagged: Angels, Streets, Heaven, American Heros, Death
“Bartlet: I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.

Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.

Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.

Jacobs: 18:22.

Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7 ... What would a good price for her be?”
— Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, Season 2: The Midterms
Tagged: abomination, Homosexuality, Bible, Application, rebuttle
“It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country born on the will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?”
— Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, Season 1: The Short List
Tagged: Abortion, role of government, Civil Rights, Internet, Privacy, health records, Homosexuality, Freedom
“It's almost hard to believe the seven of us weren't able to end a war.”
— Lee Weiner, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Believe, War
“Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?”
— Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball(2011)
Tagged: shot, Head, chest, Bleed, Death
“I don't want people to dislike me. I'm indifferent to whether they dislike me.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Personality, Dislike, difference
“If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it'll have been well worth it for those who survive.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Fire, Stampede, Survival, Worth
“That's right, we're not goin' to jail because of what we did, we're goin' to jail because of who we are!”
— Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Jail, Identity
“Judge Julius Hoffman: What were you doing until 1960?

Abbie: Nothing. I believe it's called an American education.”
— Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Education, Diss, American
“I love that you don't care how much money a person makes, you care what they make. But what you make isn't supposed to be the part of you.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Love, Money, Work
“Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?

Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: bad choice, shot in the head
“We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Tagged: Aging, baseball, Retirement
“You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network
Tagged: forensics, Facebook
“Abbie Hoffman: I don't carry money, do you?

David Dellinger: I do. I'm a grown man.”
— David Dellinger, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Money, Grown Man, adult
“Let us make sure that if blood is going to flow, let it flow all over this city.”
— Tom Hayden, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Blood, City
“Jed: Bad things happen to good people all the time, Andy, for no reason what-so-ever..”
— Aaron Sorkin, Malice
Tagged: Bad Things, Reason, Good People
“God sent his only son on a suicide mission, but people like him because he made trees.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: God, Son, mission, Creation
“They won't know what they're looking at or why they like it but they'll know they want it.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Desire, Perspective, Satisfaction
“I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs
Tagged: Education, Value, Experience
“I drank and took drugs because I'm a drug addict and an alcoholic. I'm not cured. You don't get cured. I haven't had a drink or a pill in six and a half years — which isn't to say I won't have one tomorrow.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: Take out the Trash Day
Tagged: drank, Drugs, Alcoholic, not cured
“I drink from the keg of glory, Donna. Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land.”
— Josh Lyman, The West Wing, Season 1: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Tagged: Drink, Keg, glory, muffins, Bagels, gloating
“So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as the arm of the Lord, you can do that. We're the only superpower left.”
— Leo McGarry, The West Wing, Season 1: A Proportional Response
Tagged: American, Military, strength, Lord, superpower
“Now if our tactics seem less than civilized it’s because so are our attackers.”
— Josh Lyman, The West Wing, Season 1: In Excelsis Deo
Tagged: Tactics, civilized, attackers
“You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, Chavy. I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Winning, Losing
“You know what, kiddo? In the old days of about 10 minutes ago, we did the news well. You know how? We just decided to.”
— Charlie Skinner, The Newsroom, Season 1: We Just Decided To
Tagged: Just Do It, Making Something Great
“Reporter: How much is it worth to you? What's your price?

Abbie Hoffman: To call off the revolution?

Reporter: What's your price?

Abbie Hoffman: My life.”
— Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: Life, Revolution, Price
“This is a political trial that was already decided for us. Ignoring that reality is just weird to me.”
— Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: political, Trial, Reality
“Give me a moment, would you, friend? I've never been on trial for my thoughts before.”
— Abbie Hoffman, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: moment, Friend, Trial, Thoughts
“We're not going to storm the convention with tanks or mace, but we are going to storm the hearts and minds of the American people.”
— David Dellinger, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Tagged: convention, heart, Mind, Storm
“America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President
Tagged: Election 2016, Aaron Sorkin
“Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“We remember that we’re not alone... we get out of bed... we'll fucking fight... we get involved... The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. I will not hand my daughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Exclusive: Read Aaron Sorkin's Moving Email To His Daughter After Trump's Win
Tagged: America 2016
“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
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