Quotes about america
american-comedian everybody liked rewarding
We did the movie because we liked the script; everybody wanted to do the movie just to have fun, and that was the most rewarding part of the process. Ben Stiller
america kenya ifs
If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya. Barack Obama
america prison program
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system. Barbara Ehrenreich
american-firstlady undermine
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. Laura Bush
american-businessman
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses. Larry Ellison
american-comedian deeply north
We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.
american-comedian national people
The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
american-comedian great man
It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.
american-comedian australian build capacity country great people realized
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
american-comedian clear picture
We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
american-comedian compulsion government
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
american-celebrity relatively
At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years. Leonard Woodcock
american-celebrity paid rates wage
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
american-musician bad best drop habit
The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
american-musician
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
american-musician
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. Audrey Hepburn
american-architect close disaster hill main telegraph therefore view
One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. Lawrence Halprin
american-architect believe benefits depend few pain people
Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.
american-architect consensus convincing feeling sit taking wants wonderful work
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
american-architect client depended good
Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
american-architect draw ought
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.
american-architect
Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
american-artist art felt force french leading school understood vitality
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced. Lee Krasner
american-artist amongst art began came caused gallery opened peggy showing
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
american-artist studio
My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.
american-artist anywhere assistants depending mural procedure ten
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
american-artist jackson porch quiet sit
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
american-journalist bush regular york
Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice. Sydney Schanberg
american-journalist column work
I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
american-journalist appalled commentary front happened hard staff
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.
american-journalist chip gave huge impression people room thinking understand voice walked welcome
Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.
american-journalist toward
I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation.
american-journalist dismissed
As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.