Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Stephanie Coontz Quotes

Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton.

Stephanie Coontz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1944

Topics

Black Language Never First Resources

I think a punt can be a big play in a game. If it's anything like a real game, then you realize that a Pat McAfee punt that downs someone inside the 2-yard line can really swing a game. I'm all for punting in video games.

Andrew Luck

Video Games Game Think Someone You

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

Robert Guillaume

Racism Hurt Problem Trying Humanity

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Stellan Skarsgard

Character Past Fun Pressure Play

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

Robert Dallek

Support Someone Possible President

With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.

Rodney Crowell

Time Together Ideas Singing Think

I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time.

Mary Gauthier

Work Time Learn Go Single Something

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

Mary Steenburgen

Dance New York People New Young

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

Josh Tillman

Music Time People Think Long Vanity

In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Church Growing Others First Through

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year.

Joseph Rotblat

War Cold End Year Cold War Big

Let's protect sensitive sources. Let's protect troop movements. Let's protect nuclear information. Let's not hide missteps. Let's not hide misguided policies. Let's not hide history. Let's not hide who we are and what we are doing.

Chelsea Manning

History Doing Information Hide Who

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Bob Schieffer

Time Blame Control You Want High