American Quotes

Let there be bass.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.