Quotes about america
american-journalist instead ordered pbs programs public time
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. Bill Moyers
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England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the Sixties, England was everything. To be number one in England was more important than being number one in America because England set the tone. Bjorn Ulvaeus
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Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. William J. Clinton
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it. John Wooden
american-coach best capable success
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
american-comedian
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller
american-author cannot felt
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
american-comedian people
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. Josh Billings
american-journalist great intelligence-and-intellectuals people
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. Barbara Walters
american-journalist man
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
american-scientist mind
When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac. Bram Cohen
american-scientist good
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.
american-director poet
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
american-director blood born music poetry privilege silver spoon
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
american-cartoonist base family interested powers
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. Brad Bird
american-cartoonist both centrist definitely parties
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
american-cartoonist assume direction guarantee might surest time turn win
Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
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I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs. Brandon Flowers
american-athlete heal whether
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. Brandi Chastain
american-musician command people
You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
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An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
american-musician imagine means
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
american-musician appreciation job people
People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
american-musician beneath best building lighting others
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
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You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
american-musician behavior changing easier effective far
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
american-musician thousand time
Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
american-musician direct motivational result
An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
american-musician both george kinda liked looking needed
When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons. Bootsy Collins
american-musician instead life
To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
american-musician ball fit glad whatever
It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!
american-musician brash crowd hanging hip older
We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.