A Quotes
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“American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.”
“American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?”
“American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.”
Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society
“American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.”
Source: The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
“American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.”
“American airstrikes have targeted ISIS in Libya before. Just last fall, another ISIS leader was killed. And I'm told there are several more training camps and we'll likely see more strikes in the coming weeks and months. So the U.S. is watching all this carefully and will strike what they call targets of opportunity whenever they can.”
“American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.”
“American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.”
“American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.”
“American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.”
“American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.”
“American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.”
Source: Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
“American audiences are affected by what the English people think.”
“American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.”
“American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.”
“American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.”
“American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.”
“American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) wrote a collection of essays entitled “The Crack-Up,” which makes the following astute observation: “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideals in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” For instance, he cites the ability to perceive that the situation is hopeless, and still be determined to make it otherwise. Sensitive people who came before me asked the same disconcerting questions that haunt me. Other troubled souls either drank themselves into oblivion or worked themselves to death in search of the elusive answer to this Fitzgeraldian question: Is it a sign of a lucid mind to place two contradictory ideas abreast and accept the merits of both propositions? Alternatively, is the deliberate act of embracing differing ideas with inapposite conclusions the warning sign of a troubled mind’s impending crackup?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting the Christian faith are unclear, they seem to have been profound and deep-rooted. Having lambasted the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in a later quote he referred to the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print."”
“American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: "They owned or had major shareholdings in Central American ironworks, North American canal construction companies, and a multiplicity of other concerns. They became the major importers of bullion from the newly discovered goldfields".”
“American beer drinkers had been conditioned to believe they were choosing Anheuser-Busch's beer, but that was only half true; Anheuser-Busch had left them few other options.”
Source: Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch, and How Craft Beer Became Big Business
“American Born Confused Desi Emigrated From Gujarat House In Jersey Keeping Lotsa Motels Named Omkarnath Patel Quickly Reaching Success Through Underhanded Vicious Ways Xenophobic Yet Zestful.
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American Born Confused Desi Emigrated from Gujarat House In Jersey Kids Learning Medicine Now Owning Property Quite Reasonable Salary Two Uncles Visiting White Xenophobia Yet Zestful
Now you know your ABCDs.”
Source: Born Confused
“American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.”
“American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy.”
“American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.”
“American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.”
“American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.”
“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.”
“American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.”
Source: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933
“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?”
“American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.”
Source: The Folks at Home
“American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.”
“American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.”
“American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.”
“American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas.”
“American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.”
“American can do better, and help is on the way.”
“American can mean anything you want it to mean. It can mean that you live in America. It can mean that you are privileged. Being American can also mean that you are diverse. In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.”
Source: The Conversation Starts Here: A Perspective of Self, Culture, and the American Society
“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”
Source: Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense
“American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.”
“American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.”
“American capitalism needs a steady supply of immigrant labor, but it needs it cheap. By criminalizing the workers, the state helps to keep them uncertain, uneasy, disorganized, and docile. The attack on immigrants, therefore, is both “[p]olitically…an organic expression of nativist hostility and a very useful, rational system of elite-inspired class control”—“the primary product” of which “is… fear.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.”
“American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.”
Source: Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right
“American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.”
“American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.”
“American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.”
“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”