In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
[from trailer] Frank Lucas: This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
To work hard. To open new doors for our kids, for our grandkids. To renew our spirit. That's what America is about.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
