#erica

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#american society #any #belief #believe #finally

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. ↗

— John Keegan

#eisenhower #english #epitomizes #gentleman #natural

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#any #art #music #native #performing

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

#america #come #country #freedom #guarantees

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' ↗

— David Thewlis

#french #girl #had #i #japanese

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united. ↗

— Martin Yan

#because #country #great #great country #stand

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#affected #america #areas #attempt #badly

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#calm #crisis #death #difficult #face

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole. ↗

— David Viscott

#get #people #really #themselves #therapy

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. ↗

— Brad Thor

#another #equaled #freedom #freedom of speech #i