#erica

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa. ↗

— Art Blakey

#america #american #art #art form #connect

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#american politics #came #decisions #i #i came

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#america #arrived #come #even #here

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#american #assured #been #come #her

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#am #american #battling #conceived #democracy

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#beer #bland #eats #england #english

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off! ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#bad #cause #favorite #feel #funniest

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#actor #american #american accent #british #crack

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#american experience #american spirit #city #epitomizes #experience

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#again #american #american dream #been #city