American Quotes

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I've always had an active imagination.

I'm terribly human.

I'm so positive.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

I want to work and be happy.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'