#eric

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american people #argument #being #comfortable

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#apprenticeship #bond #bond movie #doing #feel

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider. ↗

— Tom Morello

#between #bowl #corporate #disparity #each

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #contaminated #culture #europe #european

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#america #black #black and white #injustice #learn

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. ↗

— Dick Morris

#agenda #american #american politics #animate #disarm

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#american life #any #destructive #force #left

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #america #asked #come #i

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. ↗

— Audie Murphy

#any #could #freedom #french #melody