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

Charlie Wilson Quotes

Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.

Charlie Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 29, 1953

Topics

Racism Door Remember You Place Kind

There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe for America means. I want more jobs. I want veterans to have better benefits and not have them taken away. I want people to succeed in this country and have the tools to do so.

Joe Wurzelbacher

People Succeed Better Tools Look

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs

Love Water Place Nothing Never Been

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

Robert Lepage

Childhood Waiting Me Chance Lonely

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

John Zorn

End House Mean Up Note Saxophone

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Mike Figgis

World Place Humorous Tragic

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

Louis Theroux

People Me Think Know Ahead Watching

The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on.

Jason Epstein

Business War World Cards Independent

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Douglas Sirk

You Movies Must Gamble Gambler

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

Boomer Esiason

Religion You Know Say Shooting Own

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

Suzanne Vega

Writing Civilized Lot Terribly

I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

Peter Mullan

Good Me Win Think You Way

I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

Tyra Banks

Pain People Know Say People Say Big