I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Here’s a little thought experiment. Imagine that, on September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers came down, the President of the United… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence summarizes the civic principles of American life. It agrees with this biblical perspective when it affirms that we… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“All the fakeness just rolls right off them, maybe because the nonstop sales job of American life has instilled in them exceptionally… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“A MAIN ARGUMENT of this book concerns how so many parts of American life have morphed into forms of entertainment. From 1980… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“With each surge of westward movement a new community came into being. These communities devoted themselves not to marching onward but to… — Henry Nash Smith Copy Share Image
By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“The civil rights revolution provoked new declarations of ethnic identity by the now long-resident "new migration" from southern and eastern Europe--Italians, Greeks,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
We are saving American lives every single day. The court system has not made it easy for us. We've even created a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Central Appalachia is that it is becoming more marginalized in American life just when the country needs more than… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image