America Quotes - Page 265

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think.

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.

The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.