I Quotes
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“In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.”
“In America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.”
“In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.”
Source: Letters To A Young Evangelical
“In America, even the critics - which is a pity - tend to genre-ize things. They have a hard time when genres get mixed. They want to categorize things. That's why I love Wes Anderson's films and the Coen Brothers, because you don't know what you're going to get, and very often you get something that you don't expect and that's just what a genre's not supposed to do.”
“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”
“In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.”
“In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.”
“In America, everything is big and more like a jungle.”
“In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.”
“In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.”
“In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.”
“In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.”
“In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.”
“In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.”
“In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.”
“In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and these violations of the basic principles of equal rights - certain people have more rights than others - it's like "Animal Farm." The pig says that we all have equal rights, but some have more rights than others.”
“In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.”
“In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.”
“In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.”
Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
“In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.”
“In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.”
“In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.”
“In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.”
“In America, it is difficult to be your own man.”
“In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.”
“In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.”
“In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.”
“In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.”
“In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.”
“In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.”
“In America, karma is best expressed in popular phrases like what goes around, comes around and what you sow, you will reap. Karma has also been referred to as having a boomerang effect where the thoughts and actions that you send out into the world turn around and come back at you... Jesus says, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Karma goes a step further and dictates that What you do unto others will come back to you. I think Jesus and the Hindus really had the same idea. Think about that the next time you want to say or do something nasty to someone else!”
“In America, law substitutes for custom.”
Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons
“In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.”
“In America, money takes the place of God.”
Source: Red ribbon on a white horse
“In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.”
Source: Democracy in America
“In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.”
“In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.”
“In America, music is more tightly categorized”
“In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.”
Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
“In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.”
“In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.”
“In America, one of our two major parties is dominated by extremists dedicated to destroying the social contract, and the other party has been so enfeebled by two decades of collaboration with the donor class it can offer only feeble resistance to the forces that are devastating everyday people.”
“In America, one of the biggest problems we have with China is the illegal dumping of steel and aluminum into our markets. I have fought against that as a senator. I've stood up against it as secretary of state.”
“In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.”
“In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.”
“In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.”
“In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.”