#erica

I'm as American as Chevrolet. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#i

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#america #appropriate #bring #empathy #example

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#empire #high #price #soul #too

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#cannot #cultural #economic #fear #i

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

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#america #bedroom #before #bless #could

Australia was great. I would advise anybody to go there. In fact, if you couldn't live here, Australia would be the place to live. It's the most Americanized country that I've ever seen in the world. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#americanized #anybody #australia #country #ever

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great