American Quotes
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Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.
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I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, 'Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?' It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors.
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It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
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I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
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I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
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'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
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My people are American, my time is today…music must repeat the thought and aspirations of the times.
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I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
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We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.
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I often say to my friends that I felt too Puerto Rican to live in the States; then I felt too American to live in Puerto Rico. So when I settled back in Puerto Rico in 1992, I had to come to terms with all of that.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
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Georgia, like Ukraine and Moldova, is a sovereign state. If we accept, in practice, that Russia can alter borders by force, we signal to Moscow that it can violate international norms with impunity. We can hardly then complain if the Kremlin meddles in American elections, or orders murders on British soil.
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Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.
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As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they dont mean it.
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
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I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.
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Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to me.
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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will 'talk sense to the American people'. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.
