Bill Vaughan Quotes
The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.Bill Vaughan
Quotes to Explore
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Yuliya Snigir -
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski -
The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
Haley Barbour -
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber -
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
Taron Egerton -
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Aaron Klein -
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking -
It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Dan Marino -
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
Dana Perino -
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden -
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Harlan Coben -
Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
Ted Strickland -
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
Samantha Power -
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
Fred Thompson -
I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
Olivier Martinez -
My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
Margot Kidder -
My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.
Annabelle Wallis -
You need to be happy with who you are and, whoever that is, let your little light shine.
Kelly Clarkson -
The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
Bill Vaughan