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

• House
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • War
  • House
  • Lost

• This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Home
  • House

• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • House

• Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

  

  Polly Bergen
  • Money
  • House

• First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.

  

  Jake Johnson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • House

• Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Morning
  • Tired
  • Coffee

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Work
  • Live
  • Authenticity

• I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Rap

• 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