Top 1200 American Tradition Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

Obviously, we shouldn't be having any American officeholder or any American candidate looking for foreign nations to come in and be involved in U.S. elections.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.

The American people, when had the chance, three times now have said "no" to Hillary Clinton. The Democrats did it in 2008. The Jill Stein recount this year and the American people in 2016. Three times in eight years the American people have looked at Hillary Clinton and said "no."

I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy.

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Of course, it's an honor to be speaking on behalf of the U.S. government, but my boss is really the American people and there are different entities who are kind of serving the American people.

When I conducted a beer-rating session last year, I wrote that most American beers taste as if they were brewed through a horse. That offended many people in the American beer industry, as well as patriots who thought I was being subversive in praising foreign beers. I have just read a little-known study of American beers. So I must apologize to the horse. At least with a horse, we'd know what we're getting.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the whole Western world, you know? You got a pretty big responsibility.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.

Our primary threat today is ISIS. And because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate a status of forces agreement that would have allowed some American combat troops to remain in Iraq and secure the hard fought gains the American soldier had won by 2009, ISIS was able to be literally conjured up out of the desert, and it's overrun vast areas that the American soldier had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

The pit bull is not a breed but a conglomeration of traits, and those traits are reshaping what we think of as the American dog, which is to say the American mutt.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.