Country Joe McDonald Quotes

What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn.

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Emotions

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Style
  • Challenge

• The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Live
  • Know
  • Star

• The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Family
  • Science

• Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Spring

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• 哪里有压迫，哪里就有反抗。

  

  Mao Zedong

• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Great
  • Important
  • Sports

• I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?

  

  DJ Khaled

• CEOs are often chief product officers. But for me to say I'm a chief product officer when my product is a community, I really should be thinking of myself as head of this community.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • Thinking
  • Community

• Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Time

• We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

  

  Jerome Robbins
  • Knows
  • Shows
  • Novices

• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Heart
  • High
  • Health

• The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Fighting
  • Honor

• Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  

  Daniel Hudson
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Fighting

• Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Plans
  • Cube

• What are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn.

  

  Country Joe McDonald
  • Fighting
  • Damn