American Quotes

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere.