#mer

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#close #experiencing #feel #hall #i

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. ↗

— Paul Auster

#america #awhile #back #become #been

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run. ↗

— David Axelrod

#american people #country #doing #doorstep #help

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#american society #around #house #i #journals

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#barrel #common #common enemy #consumer #driven

The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable. ↗

— Max Azria

#american woman #any #comfortable #confidence #feel

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#average #collaboration #come #could #essentially

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. ↗

— Joe Baca

#america #ancestors #beginning #century #country

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#collapse #day #his #lazy #most