Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes

I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Joan Ganz Cooney

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Care
  • Pride

• 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Dark
  • Happiness

• American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Business
  • American
  • Selling

• I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • American
  • Looking

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Action

• 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
  • People
  • American
  • Study

• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Women
  • American
  • Fun

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Blood
  • Fake

• All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Only stupid people don't change their minds.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • People
  • Stupid

• I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

  

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin
  • Decision
  • Vision
  • Management

• I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

  

  Joan Ganz Cooney
  • American
  • German