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Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • House
  • Politics

• An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • American
  • Want
  • Attitude

• I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

  

  Felice Picano
  • American
  • Law
  • Legal

• I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • American
  • Not Good Enough

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Moon
  • Presidential

• I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Care
  • Insurance

• I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Time
  • American
  • Meaning

• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Racism
  • Racial

• In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • American
  • Myself
  • Explore

• There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • American

• I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

  

  Catherine Malandrino
  • American
  • France
  • Grew Up

• Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Vulnerability

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Die

• Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

  

  David J. Skorton
  • American
  • Thoughtful
  • Respected