I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience. — Sylvia Hoeks Copy Share Image
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience. — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Paranoid thinking seems to be a legacy of all revolutions, with purists searching for signs of heresy, and the American experience was… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example.… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That entitlement and the sort of - I think that's just perennial. I just think that's constant. And it's part of the… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk… — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
To make sure that everyone is clear that we are all a part of the American experience, that all of our backgrounds,… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
What surprised me was the angst at our democracy. And I understand it - I teach at a university and feel it… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall lady. I remember… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
When under siege, if we do not stand for our liberties and for the liberties of those who are unable to stand… — Tim Huelskamp Copy Share Image
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
