Happiness Quote by Joni Mitchell

I'd say our ability to supersize emotions are American-made special effects. In European countries, people mostly stay close to home and whatever rage there…

— A.M. Homes

“All over the world, there is cultural pressure to conceal negative emotions. In China and Japan, the ideal emotional state is calm and composed.…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.

— Jemele Hill

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness…

— Shelley Berman

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true.…

— Emily Blunt

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time…

— Andrew Weil

Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war…

— Stephen Mallinder

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

— Hilary Rosen

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

— Abigail Washburn

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where…

— Leonard Cohen

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

— Todd Gitlin

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more…

— Dinesh D'Souza