#erica

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#american people #as far as #being #concerned #energy

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#american #american culture #culture #feel #i

In America, it is difficult to be your own man. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#difficult #man #own #your

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. ↗

— Colin Powell

#agenda #american #american people #believe #catchy

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. ↗

— Colin Powell

#competitor #look #pure #states #united

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#around #because #britain #change #course

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#business #commercialized #i #never #north

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#american cinema #certain #cinema #intention #me