Weyes Blood (Natalie Laura Mering) Quotes

I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Care
  • Pride

• I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Dream
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• 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

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • American
  • Beginning
  • Beliefs

• American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Life
  • American
  • Small

• 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 general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • American
  • Think
  • Man

• Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Time
  • American
  • Trust

• I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • American
  • Small
  • Theatre

• 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

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Grateful

• They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wrestling
  • Strokes
  • Canvases

• When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.

  

  David Douglas
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

  

  James Surowiecki

• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.

  

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