American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Culture is always on the move.
you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans.
We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.
A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
