"All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red."

-- Jo Ann Emerson

#America Quotes #Balance Quotes #Connections Quotes

“I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't go to school; the only thing I know how to do is this. The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.”
“I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.”
“great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.”

Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40
“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”
“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.”
“I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.”
“Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.”
“I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.”

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