Don McLean Quotes
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.Don McLean
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman -
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne Dyer -
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy -
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Jack Gilbert -
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho -
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
Eddie Redmayne
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews -
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G -
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
Tariq Ali -
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
Raf Simons
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
Katherine Anne Porter -
Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.
David Lagercrantz -
We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.
Du Yun -
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike -
You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
David Deida -
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
Don McLean