An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.
The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with...
As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescen...
It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don't think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being small parts of something larger and infinitely more important to whic...
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The s...
Brad Dupree: [reading Lester's job description] "My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closel...
Patrick Bateman: [narrating] I'm fairly certain that Timothy Bryce and Evelyn are having an affair. Timothy is the only interesting person I know. I'm almost completely indifferent as to whether Evelyn knows I'm having an affair with Courtney Rawlins...
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
You don't find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me...what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.
