The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.
If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.
I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.
Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.
For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
As Americans, we have traditionally been the optimists sporting the 'can-do' attitude. But when it comes to addressing climate adaptation and resiliency, we seem to be more 'can't do' than 'can-do.'
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around the subways in my little bunhead and thinking I was so cool.
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.
