#eric

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes. ↗

— James McAvoy

#american #american films #american movies #arse #favorite

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #breaks #businesses #certainty #confidence

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. ↗

— John McCain

#authors #bill #crosses #desk #famous

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over.That's what the American people want us to do. ↗

— John McCain

#american people #broke #going #know #medicare

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#atlantic #been #buy #crosses #europeans

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#career #european #hazard #life

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#europe #negative #proof #unfinished #which

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#always #american #among #any #bad

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#america #american #american movies #demonstrates #europe

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century