#american

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american history #colony #crazy #doing #drove

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#american life #due #fact #i #i think

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#fact #films #generally #in fact #productions

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job. ↗

— Walter Wager

#american #american woman #get #got #had

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#american public #ancient #celebrities #celebrity #church

You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#college #expect #might #would #you

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#american music #been #influenced #music #musical

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters. ↗

— Alexis Korner

#blues #british #development #johnny #movement

American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned. ↗

— Michael Kors

#american women #clothes #fall #i #into