Quotes about america
america obsessed vampires
America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever. Charlaine Harris
american-athlete bedroom kids open somebody
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you. Cathy Rigby
american-musician closer
When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom. Don Gibson
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The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. Daniel Yergin
american-athlete
First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. Bo Jackson
american-athlete kids school
As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me. Lionel Richie
america cooked english food miss spend sunday time
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. Louis Tomlinson
american-musician
Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen. Kenny Rogers
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An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people. Oscar Arias
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We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen. Steve Blake
american-businessman bank fifty gold physically stock stored wealth
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
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QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.
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You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice. Rod Parsley
american-celebrity extremely nominated selected supreme
He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.
american-athlete fastest man
Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt. Maurice Greene
american-athlete best defensive intimidate line people recognize
Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time. Merlin Olsen
american-athlete brilliant charge critics include
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
american-athlete enemies man subject
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
american-journalist
You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
american-athlete caught focusing spare thinking
The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals. Peggy Fleming
american-athlete stopped
We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
american-musician attempt lives money people
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that. Randy Newman
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on. Ralph Boston
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater
american-musician disc liked music shows type understand
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make. Richard Marx
american-musician batch pick
I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
american-athlete
I don't know if it was much of an interview. We just shot the breeze. Richard Petty
american-musician life rats running spent ten until
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old. Quincy Jones
american-musician individual less optimal society tries truth
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary. Richard Berry
american-celebrity low population
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail. Robert Atkins