Don McLean Quotes

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Don McLean

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• When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • War
  • America

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Communication
  • Reader
  • Speed

• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Knowledge
  • Sometimes
  • Need

• My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Death
  • Brother

• Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Charity

• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • See
  • Slave

• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Born
  • New
  • Lived

• I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Learning

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Song
  • Words
  • Know

• Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Great
  • Real
  • Think

• In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • May
  • Opportunity

• Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

  

  Martin O'Malley

• In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I'd head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check out, pay, and head home. The process was linear and ripe for improvement.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • Home
  • Opinion
  • Improvement

• I have hunted all my life...but an AR-15 is not for hunting. It’s for killing.

  

  Bill Nelson
  • Life
  • Hunting

• If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Audience
  • Interested
  • Tastes

• Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

  

  Don McLean