Quotes of: American-life Keyword

Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers all summer just to be able to buy an eight-track. Ricky Fitts: That sucks. Lester Burnham: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.

American Beauty

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it bec...

Warren Buffett

Talk helps shape one's thoughts.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

Work is part of school.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

Nate Parker

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.

Radha Mitchell

I couldn't achieve the American dream in Japan.

Shuji Nakamura

American literature has always been immigrant.

Salman Rushdie

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.'

Tom DeLonge

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Ted Rall

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

Luke Bryan

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Maureen Dowd

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

Robert Purvis

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

Rebel Wilson

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

Norman Lear

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

Jeremy Lin

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

Mario Batali

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

Rand Paul

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Virginia Foxx