The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a… — David L. Sills Copy Share Image
Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
For me, New Jersey is kind of a mythical place. It's emblematic of a certain aspect of American life. Florida is the… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
“Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to… — Mark Thompson Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Though the two issues may seem utterly unrelated, they do have this in common - both health care and higher education are… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is the fact that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than… — George Will Copy Share Image
There is the issue of security. Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The world of tricky-tacky boxes, defined social behaviour, untrammeled egotism, sexism and material acquisitiveness, all powered by insecurity that passes for security,… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship,… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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