I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema. 2.51K
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. 670
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. 712
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa. 672
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. 895
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That’s the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans’. We don’t simply skim the elite. 1.84K
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. – Judy Holliday 1.85K
I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. 683
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. 675
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama’s leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff. 717
Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it’s around the world. 715
We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business. 669
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. 667
Now I know that Wal-Mart’s policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America. 741
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. 687
