My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
Chief Joseph
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?
John Burdett
MoneyThinkAmericanWinnerParis
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
John Otto
MoreDrumSetTowardsDrum Set
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
SoarNeverContentGroundMustSure
It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'
Jeff Nichols
MeYearTwoYearsJustStories
All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.
Mia Wasikowska
CharacterTimeManBrainGreenReal
Young people need models, not critics.
John Wooden
PeopleYoungNeedYoung People
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
Tracey Ullman
LifeAmbitionMy LifePlanAhead
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
Mary J. Blige
StrengthLiveMusicPowerPeopleMe
I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
Martin Scorsese
SawFewDalai LamaTimesAlsoDalai
I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.
Jay DeMarcus
MusicHatThoughtCountryYoungOut
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
Douglas Wood
FailureFearBestAlwaysBeen
It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin Powell
CongressAskOutTellPositionUs
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