American Quotes

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Age affects how people experience time.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.