Cybill Shepherd Quotes

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • Education
  • Single

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Care
  • Pride

• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• There's nothing more American than movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Movies
  • Nothing

• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Text
  • Phone
  • Hopeless

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • History
  • Think
  • Success

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • History
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Home
  • History

• While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Writing
  • American
  • Free

• People bang on all the time about whether what I've done is the truth or not. Well, to me, history is just a series of elaborate fictions.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Friend
  • Actor
  • Aspirations

• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • American
  • History
  • Friend