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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
Written by John Updike
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Written by Gore Vidal
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Written by Gore Vidal
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Written by Spiro T. Agnew
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Written by John F. Kennedy
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Written by Irwin Edman
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Written by Dave Barry
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
Written by Alfred Hitchcock
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Written by Carl Sagan
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
Written by Dave Barry
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Written by Dan Quayle
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Written by Barry Goldwater
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Written by Dan Quayle
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Written by Michael Schudson
American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
Written by Michael Schudson
There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.
Written by John O'Toole
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Written by Zelda Fitzgerald
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
Written by John O'Toole
Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time.
Written by Morris Hite
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
Written by Wyndham Lewis
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Written by Benjamin Harrison
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Written by Gilbert K. Chesterton
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Written by Eldridge Cleaver
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Written by Woodrow Wilson
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Written by Walt Whitman
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
Written by Barbara Kingsolver
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Written by Pearl S. Buck
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Written by Jim Bishop
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
Written by James A. Baldwin

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