#erica

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#am #american #american people #cemeteries #dangerous

In America nothing dies easier than tradition. ↗

— Russell Baker

#dies #easier #nothing #than #tradition

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american #any #apparently #had #high

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american consumers #any #consumers #fat #floor

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#baseball #better #had #heart #know

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#because #how #i #idea #live

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#american movie #come #film #french #going

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#channels #fascist #his #information #method

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it. ↗

— Peter Berg

#alien #american #audience #bringing #component