Rumaan Alam Quotes

I'm a square. I always wanted the standard-issue American dream: beautiful home, loving husband, couple of kids. I met another square, and we got married; a year later, we had a baby; three years later, had another.

Rumaan Alam

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HomeBeautifulAmerican DreamBaby

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Joe Manchin

ConstitutionAmendmentSecond

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

Jerry O'Connell

WomenThinkScaredGetLikeI Think

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Jeff Tweedy

MusicListenThievesAudienceAbsurd

The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the U.S. on a sustainable footing.

John T. Chambers

PoliticalWashingtonAbilityUsPut

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

Roger Ailes

LoveFallHardPressFalls

And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.

Jason Mewes

TimeJobMeDoorGoMovies

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

Jonathan Tucker

TodayTomorrowWineYouGrapes

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

WarWorldRealityAmericaNothing

Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.

Claudia Gray

TechnologyMindWorldThinkSecurity

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler

GreatYouNothingGetPercentElse

When I talk about 'working class,' I don't talk about 'white working class,'. I talk about 'working class,' and a third of working class people are people of color. If you are black, white, brown, gay, straight, you want a good job. There is no more unifying theme than that.

Tim Ryan

GoodJobPeopleColorBlackYou

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

Norman Granz

ThinkPresentAdmitPersonalMy Own

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