Quotes:It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great satisfaction in building this wonderful creator of classic
American culture into one of the premier entertainment-orientated companies in the world. [resignation speech]
View quotes by Michael EisnerOn Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead):
'She was instrumental about me getting my first
American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.'
View quotes by Russell CroweThe
American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.
View quotes by Robert FultonNo people require maxims so much as the
American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
View quotes by Edward DahlbergItalian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk.
American girls just go for it.
View quotes by Silvia CollocaI love America. I like being there, the culture of movies. There are problems as there are in any society, but I'm not anti-
American. I love NY particularly; LA is an acquired taste which I haven't quite acquired.
View quotes by Sam MendesThe ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the
American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward DahlbergThere's not an
American in this country free until every one of us is free.
View quotes by Jackie RobinsonThe
American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
View quotes by J G BallardThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively
American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it
View quotes by John GalsworthyAmerican literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
View quotes by Christopher Dawson'If we make room for everybody, there will be more room for everybody. An integrated America, where each and every
American is treated with the same dignity and respect, is a better America for everyone.'
View quotes by General Wesley ClarkAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
View quotes by Dave BarryAmerican Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
View quotes by R W Apple JrThe witty woman is a tragic figure in
American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
View quotes by Florence KingNow, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the
American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
View quotes by Martin Luther KingAmerican and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, Iraqis handed the British food back.
View quotes by Conan O'BrienOne thinks of French philosophy that it aspires to the condition of literature or the condition of art, and that English and
American philosophy aspires to the condition of science. French philosophy, one thinks of as picking up an idea and running with it, posibility into a nearby brick wall or over a local cliff, or something like that.
View quotes by Ted HonderichHave you been watching
American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Paula Abdul?! Gettin' Paula Abdul to judge a singin' contest is like gettin' Christopher Reeve to judge a dance contest!
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