#eric

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#about #american #american idol #care #contracts

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#attractive #believe #latin #latin america #skinny

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#americans #civil-rights #expression #gay-rights #homosexuality

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#diseases #epidemic #europeans #evolved #give

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. ↗

— James Dickey

#garland #judy #judy garland #poetry #she

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#african american #american #american women #because #caucasian

The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#american #american government #believe #both #come

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#actress #american #anything #coming #even