Quotes about america
american-athlete anybody easiest meant
Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport. Bill Rodgers
american-musician buddy keel played
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did. Al Hirt
american-journalist life
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
american-journalist issue
I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
american-journalist
Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
american-journalist good record
I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
american-journalist facilitate job life trying
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
american-musician bad
It's been like a bad dream I never woke from. Alex Chilton
american-musician biggest guess life record series
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
american-celebrity respected wayne
I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted. A. J. Foyt
american-musician manage school
We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances. Andy Williams
american-entertainer asked gonna singing stands time town won
He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... ' Arthur Godfrey
american-entertainer belief carried carry cloth luther martin piece
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. Adrian Cronauer
american-producer
There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited. Aaron Sorkin
american-businessman consumed people
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
american-businessman audience audiences great kinds rhetorical speeches using
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
american-businessman
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
america longest nobody time wanting
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. Bill Bryson
america country deserves dominant force good history lucky planet time
The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.
american-author information
Thanks for the information about what we call business. Dashiell Hammett
american-author
I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.
american-author life man ruined social whose
Another man whose social life has ruined him.
american-author despite good seems time
She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.
american-author people
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
american-author
I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.
american-musician pick sure
They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw. Alice Cooper
american-musician art high school
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
american-musician art combining forms
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.
american-artist either label truth
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding. Boyd Rice
american-educator change children taken tremendous
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. Carol Bellamy
american-educator best call children considered convention heard interests policies thus
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
american-educator
I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.
american-educator children developing limited nor suffering
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.