Mike Peters Quotes

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

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• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• 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

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • American
  • Small

• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • You
  • Stand

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • American
  • America

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

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • American
  • Dream

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • American
  • Question

• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Done
  • American

• I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Real
  • Trying

• Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • American

• The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Good
  • American
  • Tolerance

• I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Brother

• The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Peace

• I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

  

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