Quotes About American

I think I can safely say I'm the only American stand-up comic who played the Eiffel Tower.

Cuando alguien me decía: Thank you, yo contestaba: Of nothing. Por eso cuando Eric me dijo en voz bajita: You look pretty american, juré que era un piropo doble. O sea que me veía bonita y gringuita. Qué pendeja.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

let me let you in on a little secret as to why the new American gulag is going to be so popular. MSNBC has already done the math on this one: Prison = Entertainment! Now and forever! You

I pledge a return to the glory days of old-fashioned absolute dictatorship: Politics and pop culture are going to merge back into one big ugly Frankenstein baby. American

Peckinpah gives the final shoot-out in which they all die a kind of orgasmic rush that releases all of us from the cinematic or, more accurately, the American fantasy that we will survive no matter what.

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning.

The conditions that created the modern American public library are still relevant to any discussion about contemporary and future issues facing those who care about libraries, specifically trustees. To serve as a trustee of a public library places a citizen on an even higher ground shaped by the better part of modern American history. To be a trustee of a public library places one very close to major transformations in American life and culture.

I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

The flower imperishable of this valiant age, - A true American!

She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

While grateful for it, he was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism, or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.

The world had never experienced anything like the growth of the American economy in the 1920s. Manufacturing was at an all-time high, and so were profits. Employment, already burgeoning, was on the rise.

He was, in all, so clean, so sweet, so golden, that I backed off, afraid he must be American and about to convert me to some cult.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.