American Culture Quotes

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Viktor E. Frankl
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One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. Isabel Allende
Time You Memories Culture Guilt Past State Characteristics Border City Cross Most County Always Leave West Traditions North North American American Move Behind Move Forward American Culture Again Forward Start
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Johnny Depp
Great History Culture People Amazing Important Live France Though About Disaster Know Most Most Important Thing How Important Thing America American American Culture Afraid Forgotten Europe Whole Thing
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action. Niels Arden Oplev
Saying Good You Culture Revenge Drive Feeling Wish Action Think Drama Eye Eye For An Eye Be Careful Known Because Gotten Very Get American Just American Culture Happens Might Good Action Then Really Certain Element Careful
I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football. Priyanka Chopra
Culture Song Sunday First Sunday Night About Football Part Know Although Still Years American American Culture Anything American Football Theme Theme Song Sang Row Night Two
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not. Tom Brady
Life Needs Culture Made White Living Our Out Somehow Picket Fence Up American American Culture Screwed Screwed-Up Suburbs
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. Adam Davidson
Day Thanksgiving Culture Spending Parades Since Sponsor Equivalent Gluttony Been Began American Department Department Stores American Culture Stores Holiday Turkey Century Roots Deep Early
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies. Adrian Younge
Time Culture Black First Out Response Embracing Cage First Time Era Came American American Culture Literary Movies Hollywood Height Notion Luke
At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture. Amy Tan
Family History Culture Writing Mother Confusion Beginning Nothing Related Hers Hesitant Our About Emotional Writer Knew Know Talking Felt Always American Family History American Culture Different Anything Different Beliefs Which Chinese Chinese Culture Beliefs Based Career
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. Antonya Nelson
Me Youth Culture Girl Hypocrisy Beauty Preaching Teenagers Characters Seem Perfect Instance Absorb Abstinence Like How American American Culture While Modesty Perversion Capture Imagery
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. Arthur Miller
Culture Enemies Made Difficult State State Department More Friends Very Than American Department Fewer American Culture Certainly
The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old. Ashley Graham
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Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture. Ato Essandoh
Me You Culture People Seen Met Think Recognize Minor See About Absorb Excited Stuff Name Come Always Up American American Culture Really Who Traveling
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. Buffy Sainte-Marie
Culture Living Kids About Beads Instead Contemporary Were Hearing Fringe American Just American Culture Native Native American Present
Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there. CM Punk
Me Culture People First Everybody Television Tell Wrestling Countless Because First Things Always Got Been Pro American American Culture Grandfather Ingrained Ever Things Watched
I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture. Chris Jordan
Culture Think Tremendous Tremendous Amount Hostility American American Culture Amount
It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's. Christopher Plummer
Work Culture Hell Those Voice Had Like Am Very American American Culture Flatten Used English
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience. David Call
Together Culture Experience Country Out Part Come Spread Integral Integral Part Offer American American Culture Movies Communal Us Chance
I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands. David Guetta
Culture Between Brands American American Culture Established Urban Worked Created European Electronic Bridge
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. Flea
Me Culture Become Jazz Mark Kind Through Academic Contemporary American American Culture Which Much
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. George Clooney
Time Great Rights Culture Women Song Everybody Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement About Songs Protest Were Up Antiwar American Just American Culture Movement Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Growing Growing Up Elements
When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture. George Lois
War Culture Made Feelings Lyndon About Johnson Cover His Covers Lot Dummy Celebrity American Did Esquire Sitting Going American Culture Difference Lap
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. Gunnar Myrdal
Culture Other Relations Members Civilization Rational Rationalism Tend Mysticism Between Pragmatic His Western Western Civilization Optimistic Close American American Culture Nations Being Romanticism Ordinary Even Compared
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them. Irwin Winkler
Culture See Some Object Abroad Underestimate Also Make Foreign Foreigners Governments Sell American American Culture Influence Want Movies Them American Movies Us Who Many Even Groups Why
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature. Jacki Weaver
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It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me. Jacki Weaver
Me You Culture People Met Everyone Has-Been Generalize Generous Know Been Very American American Culture Lovely Million Million People Here
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