Browsing Quotes With Tag: america (8)
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Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Yet another piece of the solution dropped into place when my friend Judy said that the problem was trying to stop the jealousy and competitiveness, and that the main thing was not to let it fuel my self-loathing. She said it was nuts for me to try to be happy for this other writer. I cannot tell you how much this helped. I was raised in a culture that promotes this competitiveness, this insatiability, this fantasy of needing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then, in the next breath, shames you for any feelings of longing or envy of fear that it will always be someone else’s turn. I was only doing what I had been groomed to do.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Speaker: Don DeLilloPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Speaker: Virgil ThompsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing it happened.
Speaker: Normon M. ThomasSource: Campaign Speech 1948Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is essential that America remain strong in order that the Church can continue to support the Lord’s work in all corners of the earth.
Speaker: L. Tom PerryPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The highest possible form of treason,” said Minton, “is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Claire tried to make the point that American foreign policy should recognize hate rather than imagine love.”
“I guess Americans are hated a lot of places.”
“People are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.”Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!