#eric

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#committee #more #than #un-american

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing. ↗

— Joe Lando

#artist #besides #cause #commissioned #first

America needs to be secure at home and abroad. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#america #home #needs #secure

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#around #go #got #over #problem

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#anybody #behind #city #going #great

I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#americana #away #bit #country #country music

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#american public #delays #diplomatic #limited #patience