American Life Quotes - Page 8

• People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

  Pete Rozelle

  Football, Emotional, Oasis

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• I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

  Jonathan Chait

  Years, Important, Pantheon

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, White, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Bears, Virtue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are criminal aliens in this country who have come into this country who are perpetrating violence and taking American lives.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Criminals, Violence

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

  George Takei

  War, Government, Tragedy

  Source: www.signature-reads.com

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• The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Stars, Men, Hands

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• Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

  Russell Baker

  Background Noise, Journalism, Backgrounds

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• The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

  James Pike

  Sunday, Hours, Clock

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• Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Minorities, Melting, Pot

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• Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Leviathan

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

  Melanie Fiona

  Perfect, Balance, West

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• We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

  Chris Hayes

  Simple, Realization, World

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• It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method.

  Bret Harte

  Secret, Stories, Characteristics

  Bret Harte (2001). “The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings”, p.222, Penguin

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• Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Great American

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• When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

  Herbert Croly

  Promise, Matter, Purpose

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

  Hope Davis

  Giving, Perspective, Stories

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

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• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Men, Weather

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.55, Reprint Services Corporation

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• And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Persistence, Two

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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• The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Insecurity, Peaceful, Faults

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Light, Evening

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• I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think it's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people. I sat on the Robb-Silverman Commission. I saw many, many analysts that came before that committee. I asked every one of them-I said, 'Did-were you ever pressured politically or any other way to change your analysis of the situation as you saw?' Every one of them said no.

  John McCain

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "'The Early Show' Cherry-Picks McCain's "Face The Nation" Interview". www.newsbusters.org. November 14, 2005.

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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  Michelle Malkin

  White, Race, Government

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• The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life Is, Theatrical

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Shadow and Act”, p.53, Vintage

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