American Quotes

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I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

There have been great things that happened to me.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Everything does go in a circle.

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.