American Quotes
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I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
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The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
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The American Pie success has been so wonderful for me, but it's also locked me into a certain type of role. It's limited my options.
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The biggest difference between British TV and American TV is money. But what money doesn't do on American TV, which I thought it would, is buy you time. You don't get more time. You get more toys.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
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I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
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Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
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We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.
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American music culture is black culture.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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KISS is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
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Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
