American Quotes

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

For me, music and life are all about style.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.