Top 1200 American Idol Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I've never had an idol, but I watched Ronaldinho and then players like Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi. They are so good, it's impossible not to notice them.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

Kobe is probably an idol for so many players. He was such a great player so you wanted to be like Kobe. He's a legend that never dies.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

The contracts for 'Idol' are definitely very intimidating at first. There's lots of fine, fine details that you have to read through.

Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

Tom Brady is a big inspiration and a big idol of mine.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

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