David Mandel Quotes

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

David Mandel

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
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• Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Up
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• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • American
  • Government
  • Exercise

• When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • School
  • Business
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• 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
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• It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
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• School is very important to my family.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Important
  • School
  • Family

• I look back at pictures of myself in high school, and I was a cheerleader, and I had hair just as thick if not thicker and long - down to my hips.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Long
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• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Why
  • American
  • Football

• There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
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• I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Effort

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

  

  David Mandel
  • School
  • American
  • Remembered