Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was… — Marc Forgione Copy Share Image
I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
“The messages a woman receives from modern North American culture are contradictory; she needs a job for fulfillment but should be home… — Janell L. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Much of what we have been doing to improve the world's opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, the multicultural movement, especially as presented in our educational institutions, isn't really about fostering greater respect among people… — Marybeth Hicks Copy Share Image
There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of strange threads in American culture, and places where sympathy is extended and places where it isn't, and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Every word serves a purpose. It conveys an idea. And the idea behind words like feces, stool, or poop is exactly the… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better… — Willie Dixon Copy Share Image
I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
I have a good connection with people from America that come to my shows. It's more the American culture. I like the… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
There's something I have about being Canadian - there's a distance it gives you when you live in the States and operate… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
It made me sad to notice there's more American culture in society. It's about having their eyebrows groomed, pedicures, being more conscious… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
