Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

Elsie de Wolfe

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• Sunshine

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Slavery

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • America
  • Myself

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • America
  • Development
  • Excited

• The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • America
  • Small
  • Wonder

• When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Know
  • Me
  • Doors

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Women
  • America
  • Savage

• I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • America
  • Think
  • Back

• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Character
  • America
  • Islam

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Kids
  • America

• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • People
  • America
  • Song

• That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Mind
  • America

• Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don't have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Up
  • World
  • Guy

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • America
  • Doors
  • Sunshine