American Quotes
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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
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Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
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American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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Is there decency left in American politics?
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
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'American Idol' was an extremely expensive show.
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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
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French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
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In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
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The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
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Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.
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It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.
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The future of American film lies on television.
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America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
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Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
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I'm all-American. Sexy but not intimidating. Not the kind of woman who's going to steal someone's husband.
