Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Billy Joel

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton Christensen

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Bill Paxton

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Hedy Lamarr

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Monica Crowley

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

Karen DeCrow

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Orson Welles

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael

Lester Burnham: Good. I'm looking for the least possible amount of responsibility.

American Beauty

Carolyn Burnham: I will sell this house today, I will sell this house today.

American Beauty

Frank Lucas: The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

American Gangster

Rossi: More important than one man's life is order.

American Gangster

Curt Henderson: What did you say? Wait, what did you say?

American Graffiti

Curt Henderson: Listen, I still gotta find that blonde.

American Graffiti

Jean: What's that? Patrick Bateman: Duct tape. I need it for... taping something.

American Psycho

Patrick Bateman: [to drycleaner] If you don't shut your fucking mouth, I will kill you.

American Psycho

Craig McDermott: Cheer up, Bateman. What's the matter? No shiatsu this morning?

American Psycho

Lamont: Just remember, in here, you the nigga. Not me.

American History X