American Quotes
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
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I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.
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I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
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Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
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None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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It's time to focus on real solutions that will create jobs and build our economy for real strength and stability - not just for the fortunate few, but for every American.
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Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
