“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.” ThinkingKnowsPlayWantedAmericaActorsMiddleGrewGrew UpMy FamilyPrincessBridesPrincess BrideMiddle America Author:Missi Pyle
“If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsBodyAmericaHouseEventsMembersFunctionPortionsWipe Author:Charles W. Pickering
“Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsAmericaMistakeMalesChef Author:Jacques Pepin
“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.” KnowsChildrenPlayAmericaParentCitiesParticularDramaSettingVersionsSettingsFarmsChildren And Parents Author:Tom Perrotta
“There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.” KnowsFeelsAmericaUsedSickTouristsFresh FoodProcessed Food Author:Wolfgang Puck
“Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.” PeopleKnowsAmericaEurope Author:Sun Ra
“I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.” ThinkingKnowsMenAmericaBlackCooperatives Author:Sister Souljah
“There is nobody that I know who believes that Bank of America is a human being who should be entitled for the same constitutional rights that the people of our country are.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveHumansCountryAmericaHuman BeingsRightsOur CountryEntitledConstitutional Rights Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.” KnowsNeedsShowsAmericaClassMiddleSonConvincedMiddle Class Author:Redd Foxx
“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsStoriesAmericaFacesTalkingGoneCoupleTerribleRight NowDilemmaThrough The Years Author:Joan Lunden
“All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.” KnowsAmericaTermClearOne ThingTerrorismExperts Author:Ron Suskind
“This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.” KnowsDoeProblemAmericaSkillsPrioritiesScales Author:Tavis Smiley
“Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.” KnowsBelieveMeanHardStoriesAmericaStruggleRichWifeCorporateRomneyRich Women Author:Juan Williams
“If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.” IfsKnowsLittlesCharacterAmericaFantasticCharlieOrphanAnnieChaplin Author:Marguerite Young
“It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out you know, out thousands of e-mails.” IfsKnowsLooksMeanHomeMightAmericaLyingPercentMeetingsClintonProductionsAppearanceRussiaCoveredMailPrincipalGreaseBriberyUraniumCovered Up Author:Jedediah Bila
“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.” ThinkingKnowsMenKindAbleAmericaFeltPerfectAttentionRecordsMiddleThirdsPaidTownsAimSizeAccessGenreFakeHipsterNashville Author:Jack White
“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.” KnowsMadeGovernmentAmericaFatherOpportunityGivenLike YouCitizensOrdinaryExtraordinaryLike MeMade ItExtraordinary ThingsOrdinary ThingsOrdinary Citizens Author:Mia Love
“So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.” KnowsDreamAmericaFoundGrowing UpGrowingPossibilityFilledExcitementAmerican DreamLiving The American Dream Author:Mia Love
“The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.” KnowsCharacterStoriesAmericaPerformingAmerican Character Author:Rebel Wilson
“I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.” ThinkingKnowsMenAmericaEasyRepeatsVillainAgain And AgainHeadlinesScapegoatVillainyBoogie Author:Edward Zwick
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.” KnowsMayIdeasStatesHelpingAmericaLawRaceIssuesMastersIdealsBlueSurpriseGermanyNaziReproductionEugenicsSelectiveNazi GermanyMein KampfBlue Eyed Author:James Morcan
“It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingAmericaSongAsksSoundEnglandAccents Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWholeAmericaNew YorkHillsBeverly HillsWhole Foods Author:Ronald Burkle