Michael Emerson Quotes

We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

Michael Emerson

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

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • American
  • Often
  • Cartoon

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

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • American
  • Mom

• In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Work
  • American
  • Military

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • American
  • Fun
  • Single

• I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

  

  Kai Bird
  • American
  • College
  • Study

• The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Guilty
  • Crime

• It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • May
  • Home
  • American

• It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

  

  Mario Vazquez
  • Life
  • American
  • Honesty

• When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

  

  John Woo
  • Family
  • School
  • Money

• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Gangster

• We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • American
  • Category
  • Congregate