Don McLean Quotes
I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news,
but she just smiled and turned away.
And the three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train to the coast
The day the music died.
Don McLean
Quotes to Explore
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
Natalie Dormer
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
Ted Turner
Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
Karolina Kurkova
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
Ted Danson
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Walter Lippmann
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
Yannick Noah
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.
Bonnie Raitt
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
Saint Ignatius
A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.
Katherine Langford
I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news,
but she just smiled and turned away.
And the three men I admire most,
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost,
They caught the last train to the coast
The day the music died.
Don McLean
