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- Nov 07, 2020
Ax Quotes
On persistence, writing, and hard choices
These ax quotes span budget-cutting debates, the patient logic of chopping down a tree one swing at a time, and a writer's ideal of having no ax to grind, a theme close to our Book quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty nice. I'm far from an ax murderer. I've never been mean to anyone in my life.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.
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- Nov 07, 2020