American Quotes

I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

I really like it that they promote from within.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.