David Bryan Quotes

One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

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• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Me
  • Singing

• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
  • Nerd

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Positive

• I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Acting is important to me, but so is the rest of my life, and what I still keep in mind is that the pressure of being successful lasts so short a time.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

  

  Jason O'Mara
  • Important
  • Family
  • American

• When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Kids

• One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Work
  • Kids