Michael Beschloss Quotes

Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for the fact that the Cold War ended far earlier than almost anyone suspected - and on terms that Americans had fantasized about for 45 years?

Michael Beschloss

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You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're doing is wrong.

Jimmy Iovine

HappyDoingCustomerYouWrongTry

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

MountainsSchoolMeBasketballFarm

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

John Edgar Wideman

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It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

Andrew Shue

ConfidenceJourneyYourselfPeople

I have a Chevy Impala that I roll around in and a '89 Jeep Wrangler, which is the first car I ever bought. It has 180,000 miles on it, and that is my daily whip. I take that everywhere. Don't forget where you came from, that's why I'll never get rid of that Jeep.

John Cena

CarDailyYouForgetWhyNever

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia

MusicHistoryKnowListenAnything

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

Rodney Atkins

HeartCitySingingSmallThinkYou

Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.

Martine Syms

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My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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I worked with Jack Nitzsche for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and we'd booked a symphony orchestra. He dismissed them and came with a little man who poured water into glasses of different sizes to make a glass harmonica. And most of the music for the film was that - with some Indian flutes and some drums.

Milos Forman

MusicWaterManGlassesGlassNest

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Jude Law

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What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.

Jason Fried

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