#mer

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. ↗

— Anna Lee

#america #been #england #i #i am

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#america #france #ideal #involves #matter

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. ↗

— Spike Lee

#african american #alone #american #american culture #black

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#because #camera #i #me #need

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday. ↗

— Richard Lester

#beginning #came #commercial #doing #easy

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#american #being #close #connection #dad

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#first #get #hammer #if at first #succeed

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life. ↗

— Evan Osnos

#authoritarianism #credibility #democracy #government #gun-policy

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#america #because #become #believe #care