Top 1200 American Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

My administration will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six months or four months or whatever, and that gets very deep in your blood. When you do a TV character for seven years, that's a long time. It becomes a seminal era in your life.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?