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.
Don McLean
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Idris Elba
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim
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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.
Barbara Smith
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
Famke Janssen
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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.
E. L. James
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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.
Dan Castellaneta
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Daisy Bates
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.
Jay Parini
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Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?
Lewis Carroll
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I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
Bear Grylls
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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.
Don McLean