American Quotes

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

The best policy is to declare victory and leave.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

I love you, what star do you live on?

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.