American Culture Quotes

• If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Gay Pride, Culture, Influence

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Aug 02, 2010

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• 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

  Enemy, Culture, States

  The New York Herald Tribune, March 31, 1954.

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• People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American culture rooted in liberty and freedom that they had never enjoyed in their lives prior. They didn't have to sacrifice who they were. They didn't have to change or give it up, but they were eager to become Americans.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sacrifice, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

  Yael Stone

  Culture, World, Influence

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• 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

  Europe, America, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.

  Roger Sherman

  Love, Sad, Country

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• All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.

  Casey Affleck

  Mean, Hunting, Peaceful

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

  Todd Gitlin

  People, Use, Culture

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• The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

  Roger Housden

  Winning, Competition, Western Culture

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Mean, Forever

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

  John Robert Colombo

  Government, French Culture, Canada

  "Oh Canada" l. 1 (1965)

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• The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Music, Mean, Roots

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

  Saul Bellow

  New York, Thinking, America

  1969 In radio interview, reported in The Listener, 22 May.

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• 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

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Honesty, Freedom

  "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

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• Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Culture

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  Jacki Weaver

  Growing Up, Son, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Reality, Culture, Poverty

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Intelligent, Grudge

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 11, 2012

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• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Stupid

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• Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Xenophobia, Hate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Native American, Culture, Looks

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says you can survive and thrive in any adversity, because you are strong - but that message of strength is both disqualifying and problematic.

  James Redford

  Strong, Adversity, Moral Fiber

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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

  Believe, Power, Media

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• There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

  Emily Haines

  People, Culture, World

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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