American Quotes
-
Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy - the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps - to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.
-
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
-
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
-
In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.
-
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
-
Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn't mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.
-
American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.
-
Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
-
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
-
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
-
Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.
-
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
-
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
-
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
-
American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
-
They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.
-
It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.
-
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
-
It is the American practice to present others as guilty wherever they are defeated. Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?'
-
I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?
-
I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
-
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
-
I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
-
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
