#american

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#american people #people #stronger #terrorism #than

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#african american #american #double #more #poverty

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. ↗

— Lord Byron

#emperor #i #nod #rather #than

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think. ↗

— Farrah Fawcett

#beauty #better #boy #brains #prefers

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#american kids #i #kids #listening #love

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. ↗

— Cory Booker

#bedrock #choose #class #economic #empowered

The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#american #american people #begin #best #bipartisan

We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that. ↗

— Connie Britton

#american #characters #far #friday #friday night

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government