Jerry Coleman Quotes

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jerry Coleman

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• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • America
  • Tomorrow
  • Stand

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
  • Mistake

• Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Important
  • America
  • Know

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• The demographics of the country are going to change. It's inevitable. The Latino community in America is going to grow. If you stopped all immigration today, just by virtue of birth rates, this is going to be a browner country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Today

• I love America - I'm not saying that I love Americans. I don't know. It just seems a bit more optimistic. I don't know - in England, if you do something successful, people hate you. Whereas in America, if you do something successful, people will pat you on the back and say, 'Hey, well done.' People are jealous and negative in England.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • People
  • Done
  • America

• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Teenager

• Tot species, tantosque ortus variosque novatusuna dies aperit, conficit ipsa dies.

  

  Ausonius

• Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle - Why not I with thine?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • World
  • Why
  • Law

• Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • America
  • Funny
  • Humor