American Culture Quotes

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Great, History, Amazing

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt Romney

Education, Work, Family

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
Doug Coupland

Experience, School, American

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
Leslie Fiedler

American, Culture, Class

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Political, American

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, American, Less

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
John Podhoretz

Understand, American, Culture

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Arthur Miller

Made, Friends, Difficult

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee

Alone, Saying, Black

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

Business, America, American

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.
Etta James

Music, Rock, Country

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Katherine Dunn

War, Long, Between

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
Tommy Lee Jones

American, Child, Culture

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
Tony Kushner

Gay, Important, American

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.
David Sedaris

Hate, Live, Moving

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Living, American, Kids

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
Richard Russo

Writing, America, American

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
Todd Gitlin

American, Culture, Hybrid

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
David Guetta

Between, American, Culture

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
Edward Sapir

History, Future, Past

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
Mohammed Morsi

Judge, American, Culture

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Yahoo Serious

American, Culture, Ourselves

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire

American, Used, Culture

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
James Lafferty

Mind, Keep, American

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
James T. Walsh

Power, Important, Try

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Tavis Smiley

Today, Place, Talk

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
Tabitha Soren

American, Culture, Surprised

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
Christopher Plummer

Work, Hell, American

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
Lance Morrow

Real, American, Door

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
Anthony Bourdain

American, Culture, Sharper

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