American Quotes

• Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Time
  • Dirty
  • Mysterious

• We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • Continue
  • Workers
  • Houses

• I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• I have known Senator Rubio for a number of years, and he is an inspiring, courageous, and bold leader who embodies the American dream of freedom and equal opportunity for all.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Dream
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • American
  • Hero

• I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Dream
  • Lonely

• My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

  

  Eric Balfour
  • Family
  • American

• Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Father

• People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • American
  • Lifting

• Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • American

• OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

  

  Joely Richardson
  • People
  • American
  • Career

• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  

  Gene Siskel
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Angry

• I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Gold

• It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

  

  Joan Crawford
  • American

• Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • American
  • Age

• The promise of the Internet is being held back by Visa, Master Card, American Express.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • American
  • Promise

• Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • People
  • Important
  • Home

• World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.

  

  Max Keiser
  • World
  • American
  • Military

• It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Good
  • Movie
  • English

• We budget quite a bit of money every year in order to assist people who are migrating here, people who are trying to enter into our society and be a part of the American dream.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

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