All Quotes

'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.
‐‐ Tom Shales

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
‐‐ Crystal Bowersox

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

'American Idol' was fun; it was definitely an experience. I was 16 years old when I did it, and I was curious about how I would do on the show.
‐‐ Tori Kelly

American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.
‐‐ Nick Fradiani

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

American influence is not what it used to be.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
‐‐ Rand Paul

American is the first democratic nation-state.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
‐‐ Ilan Stavans

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
‐‐ George Brett

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

American literature has always been immigrant.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
‐‐ Shane Smith

American men are like women.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.
‐‐ Elisabetta Canalis

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
‐‐ Pontus Hulten

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.
‐‐ Tina Brown

American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
‐‐ Tucker Carlson

American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't see why Formula One cannot be something America is a part of. I wouldn't say it's too European at all.
‐‐ Alexander Rossi

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
‐‐ Desi Arnaz

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
‐‐ Don McLean

'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about making your play, your script, not some network production. We're treated like playwrights, not like fodder for some machine.
‐‐ Terrence McNally

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
‐‐ Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
‐‐ Diane Wakoski

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
‐‐ Jay Parini

American politics is always an open competition.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton