Top 1200 Every American Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

'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.

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.

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.

I have no choice but to admit that, for a while, I was a casual viewer of 'American Idol.' By 'casual viewer,' I mean I watched every episode aired between 2004 and 2007.

Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.

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

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.

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today!

This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

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

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

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

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there--and He cares--about every step and every breath.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

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

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.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

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

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

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!'

Every day is perfect because there's no other day! As a friend of mine said, "Ride the horse in the direction it's going." When you do that, you realize that every moment, every breath, every sound, every encounter is a gift. You bloody well better enjoy it.

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.

I am for a system of universal health care where every American has health care as a fundamental right because I think that's where we should be as a civilized society.

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

I think we have got to have a strong economy. Got to have a strong military. We need to have good border security. Almost every American can agree on those things.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

The hand of the Creator is actively involved in every atom, every plant, every creature, and yourself, in every cell in your body.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

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.

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.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

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

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade... everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

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.

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

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.

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

Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

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

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.

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

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

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.