#mer

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#america #came #care #country #deliver

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. ↗

— Ken Burns

#bass #bass players #become #cult #drummers

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. ↗

— James Carville

#defend #i #i think #itself #party

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#afford #american #american children #another #bureaucratic

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ↗

— Francine Busby

#arab #emirates #i #learn #operations

An actor is only merchandise. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#merchandise #only

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#beginning #being #commercial #commercial films #deciding

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure