Jon Lee Anderson Quotes

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Jon Lee Anderson

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• Burning
• Baghdad
• Plunder

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • House
  • Generation

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • House
  • Free
  • Advice

• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • House
  • First
  • White

• There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • House
  • White

• I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Experience
  • House
  • Research

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • House
  • Wish

• Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • House
  • You

• I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • House
  • Always
  • Down

• With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • White
  • Canvas

• There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • House
  • Energy
  • Choices

• I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • House
  • Sunshine

• He showed me his fantastic library first, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • House

• When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Done

• We all have a face that we hide away forever, And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone. Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather. They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Love
  • Forever
  • Hide

• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Battle

• I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

  

  Jon Lee Anderson
  • House
  • Burning
  • Baghdad