All Quotes

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
‐‐ Marisha Pessl

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
‐‐ Robert Benton

In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name. Some of them can get it, but many can't.
‐‐ Sharlto Copley

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
‐‐ Robert Reich

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

In America, public opinion is the leader.
‐‐ Frances Perkins

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
‐‐ Jonathan Safran Foer

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
‐‐ Fritz Lang

In America, small business is a big deal.
‐‐ Bob Beauprez

In America the biggest is the best.
‐‐ Roy Lichtenstein

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.
‐‐ Michael M. Honda

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

In America, the old are neglected.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
‐‐ Brad Holland

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
‐‐ Rick Perry

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
‐‐ Martin Amis

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
‐‐ Michael Porter

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
‐‐ Adam Johnson

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.
‐‐ Robert Pattinson

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.
‐‐ George Weah

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
‐‐ Barack Obama

In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
‐‐ Ben Katchor

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
‐‐ Grimes

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
‐‐ Norman Jewison

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

In America, they are very respectful of your work. People are not judgmental. They like difference - to be different is a force. In France, you have to be like the girl next door.
‐‐ Lea Seydoux

In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
‐‐ Charles Hazlewood

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli

In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.
‐‐ Mary Quant

In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
‐‐ Robin Williams