Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you’re not in the room.

Faces

Rooms

Your Face

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.

Fall

People

Years

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Decision

Made

Shows

Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Freedom

Kindness

Respect

Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That’s my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.

Government

School

Teacher

Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.

Bad Word

Elites

Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.

Film

War

Worry

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Good Writers

Great Writers

Stealing

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.

Government

People

Together

I do enjoy the fact that we don’t have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president – a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.

Father

Husband

Son

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Able

America

Awards

Bad Word

Bars

Be Good

Believe

Black And White

Blood

Bob

Boys

Care

Championship

Character

Connections

Cooking Dinner

Country

Crazy

Criminals

Deadline

Decision

Dialogue

Directors

Division Of Labor

Doctors

Doe

Doors

Drama

Dream

Elites

Eye

Faces

Fake

Fall

Father

Fifteen

Film

Freedom

Girl

Girlfriend

Giving

Glamorous

Gone

Good Writers

Goodbye

Government

Graduation

Great Writers

Guy

Hate

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Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you’re not in the room.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.

Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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.

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