American Quotes
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what's wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?
I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it's called the American dream.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.
That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.