Mary McCarthy Quotes
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
-
With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
-
Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
-
To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
-
As we enter 2015, we are faced with overwhelming challenges. However, the dawn of 2015 also promises unlimited potential and the opportunity to begin rebuilding America.
-
A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
-
Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
-
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
-
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
-
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
-
I don't understand anything about America's culture.
-
What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
-
The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
-
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
-
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-
Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
-
What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
-
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
-
You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
-
I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, "Why are you so concerned about me?" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that.
-
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
-
Without investment, you cannot have jobs.
-
Being on stage taught me how to apply eyeliner.
-
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
