“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.” DreamAmericaCertainCultureInterestDemocracyPersonalityAspirationClashMobility Author:David Brooks
“I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.” ThinkingAmericaMotherCareersPersonality Author:Victoria Beckham
“[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.” KnowsShouldMindHeartAmericaGamesHeardEventsJudgingPersonalityResearchBaseballMy TimeI Have LearnedBiographiesHeart And MindOutstandingJuryDocumentationJudge And JuryLandi Author:Ralph Kiner
“William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.” FirstsAmericaPersonalityDirectorsCastlesHitchcock Author:John Waters
“Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.” PeopleWayDoneAmericaPoliticalDealsSuccessfulCuttingPersonalityTrumpPoliticianBuiltSurpriseExecutivesEstablishmentExecutionSuccessful BusinessOrganizer Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.” KindAmericaPersonalityIncrediblesBreezeHighways Author:Jerry Garcia
“I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?” ThinkingWantIdeasRunningAmericaNextStuffClearPersonalityOkayWake UpElectionNext TimeIrrelevantParticipantsSniping Author:Hillary Clinton
“In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.” KnowsAmericaIdentityPersonalityStrongerNorth America Author:Gaspar Noe
“When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.” PeopleDifferentAmericaLaughingCrazyPersonalityEuropeSouthSouth America Author:Mike Tyson
“I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldHardHandsAmericaCultureSituationLeaderTvsPersonalitySouthWesternWork OutStaringAlsCultMicrophonesWestern WorldCharismaticSouth AmericaArab WorldHands UpPresenter Author:Alexander Siddig
“It is true that we need a consensus to go forward with restoring passenger rail in America, and often a consensus is formed by political action, via government. That is all true. But we have no such consensus, and no one in government or politics these days has the will or the force of personality or perhaps even the understanding of the situation to get on with job of forming a consensus supporting rail.” NeedsGovernmentActionJobsAmericaPoliticalForceUnderstandingSituationPersonalityThese DaysConsensusPassengersRailRestoringPolitical Action Author:James Howard Kunstler
“'You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'” ThinkingBelieveHumansSaidI CanRealSoulEndsWould BePainAmericaHateTermInterestLinesPleasureVirtueDoubtImpossibleEmotionalPersonalityConcernCrossesMarkVicesSillyBoundariesNo DoubtFlawsImaginaryEstatesHuman SoulUnrealPain And PleasurePixiesMother NightImaginary Lines Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.” ArtCountryAmericaFormFlowerPersonalityCommitmentOther CountriesIntrovertAdvancingAloof Author:Florence King
“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.” PeopleCountryAmericaLawCultureReligiousKnownFashionPersonalityDegreesBehaviorMajorsSplitsRevivalHystericalCovertSplit Personality Author:Robert A. Heinlein