American Culture Quotes - Page 5

• In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things.

  Jason Wu

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

  Mick Hucknall

  Strong, Culture, Afros

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• Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.

  Stephen Mallinder

  War, Dirty, Europe

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  White, Needs, Culture

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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• The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

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• Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

  Robin Givhan

  Wise, Average, Wind

  "Melania stiletto-gate is a showcase for media pettiness" by Stephen L. Miller, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2017.

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• 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, Doors, History

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• American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Icons, Culture

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• 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, People

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• Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Culture, Degradation

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• The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

  Henry Giroux

  Running, Culture, Electric Current

  "Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism". Book by Henry Giroux, www.alternet.org. 2011.

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• The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Real, Struggle

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• In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

  Alan Wolfe

  Religious, Culture, Mets

  Alan Wolfe (2005). “The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• 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

  Culture, Screens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Appreciation, Taken, Athlete

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• Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

  David Platt

  Self, Culture, Achieve

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• Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Religious, Philosophy, Political

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Meaningful, Jobs, Writing

  "Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

  Barney Rosset

  Sex, Waiting, Example

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

  Anthony Bourdain

  Culture, World, Commentary

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• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Lasts, Culture

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

  George Clooney

  Song, Growing Up, Rights

  "George Clooney on Good Night and Good Luck". Interview with Rob Nelson, www.motherjones.com. November 2005.

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• 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, Romance

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