#american

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#american women #chinese #clothes #comes #flesh

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#american way #ancestors #arms #came #died

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american way #finish #job #start #way

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art #audience #audience member #available #engage

To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music. ↗

— Gary Allan

#american #blue-collar #country #friday #heart

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#english #i #kid #sing #singer

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. ↗

— John Avlon

#american people #anger #canned #gotten #people

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. ↗

— Joe Barton

#american #american flag #approach #battlefields #behind