America Quote by Norman Rockwell

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages…

— Cary Fukunaga

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or…

— Henry Rollins

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one of the…

— Park Chan-wook

We are learning in our global community that, yes, we are Americans but we are also citizens of a global community and we have…

— Rob Minkoff

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

— Ai Weiwei

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important…

— Billy Corgan

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We…

— Chris Abani