Don McLean Quotes
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.
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I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
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I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
