Winston Marshall Quotes
I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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All my song writing starts in same form, I have so many scraps of choruses and verses and voice recordings and actual recordings, which then often conceptualises as a rhythmic and melodic and a delivery thing.
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We put people at the center of everything we do.
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I'm probably the guy who keeps it loose around the room and tries to joke around with guys before the game, keeping things funny.
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Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
