American Culture Quotes - Page 4

• American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

  Yorgos Lanthimos

  Interesting, Greek, Culture

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. There's a certain kind of cultural imperialism that we practice. Our films penetrate every market in the world. I have seen and have had people reflect to me, maybe not in so many words or specifically, but I get the subtext of it - they're somewhat charmed and surprised and happy to see an American film reflect on our culture. Because they see other cultures reflect on our culture but they don't see US culture reflecting on itself in quite the same way.

  Matt Ross

  People, Culture, World

  Source: collider.com

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• People are not prepared or able to rejoice in suffering unless they experience a massive biblical revolution of how they think and feel about the meaning of life. Human nature and American culture make it impossible to rejoice in suffering. This is a miracle in the human soul wrought by God through His Word.

  John Piper

  Biblical, Thinking, People

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• What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export.

  David Simon

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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• Because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Australia, Culture, Television

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

  Jess Row

  Attitude, Men, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.

  Wayne Flynt

  Teacher, School, Icons

  "Harper Lee Remembered As Reclusive". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

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• First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too fast I'm afraid. Especially in American culture where people tend to be materialistic philosophically. I don't mean running to the mall, but philosophically, you see?

  Robert Thurman

  Running, Mean, Self

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.

  Noam Chomsky

  Gun, Independence, Population

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try to get together, [it's] very difficult because they each feel like they have the right to their culture.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, White, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

  Jessa Crispin

  Leaving, Culture, Made

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

  Eric Foner

  Hero, Men, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• There's a distinct American culture that evolved from the United States founding, and that is what made America great, is what allowed the human being to become.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, United States, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

  James W. Loewen

  Native American, Giving, Choices

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.

  Rob Pruitt

  People, Culture, Constant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Believe, Doe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Latin, Thinking, Culture

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• I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

  August Wilson

  Art, Writing, Cutting

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• There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Men, Who I Am

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• I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.

  David McCullough

  Thinking, Mcdonalds, Doors

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Environmental, Contentment

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

  Lester Bangs

  Shining, Culture, Pieces

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.460, Anchor

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• Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Winning, African American, Culture

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• There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

  Andrew Bird

  Real, Europe, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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