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- Nov 07, 2020
American Life Quotes
Quotes on culture, routine, and everyday America
These American life quotes range from cultural history — the influence of individualistic Protestant Christianity on American life in Britain and America — to concrete policy, like fair housing laws barring discrimination in housing.
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- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jews integrated themselves into American life to the point that the argument that the Jews aren't American sounded so stupid, that people stopped thinking it.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the places I was put due to American history and laws and the oppression of black people - I had to make it work in other ways.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd have to put yourself back in the 1960s to understand how separate from the mainstream of American life soldiers felt themselves to be, because we knew that students and others were demonstrating pretty violently against what we were doing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
- Economic Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020