Quotes about American Life

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count! Votes: 3

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know. Votes: 3

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show. Votes: 3

For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. Votes: 3

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life. Votes: 3

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. Votes: 1

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. Votes: 1

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life. Votes: 1

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. Votes: 1

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. Votes: 1

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours. Votes: 1

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. Votes: 1

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. Votes: 1

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Votes: 1

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets. Votes: 1

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. Votes: 1

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life. Votes: 1

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. Votes: 1

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. Votes: 1

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.' Votes: 1

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. Votes: 1

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. Votes: 1

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests. Votes: 1

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. Votes: 1

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. Votes: 1

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life. Votes: 1

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11. Votes: 1

We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat. Votes: 1

I love the American way of life. Votes: 0

American Idol' has taken over my whole life. Votes: 0

Envy is the central fact of American life. Votes: 0

The American way of life is not negotiable. Votes: 0

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life. Votes: 0

The American empire is hovering between life and death. Votes: 0

Race has no place in American life or law. Votes: 0

A great American city is fighting for its life. Votes: 0

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse. Votes: 0

I wear American Apparel jeans every day of my life. Votes: 0

There is a need for heroism in American life today. Votes: 0

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life. Votes: 0

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories. Votes: 0

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life. Votes: 0

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. Votes: 0

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance. Votes: 0

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream. Votes: 0

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse. Votes: 0

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life. Votes: 0

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. Votes: 0

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. Votes: 0

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Votes: 0

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical. Votes: 0

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life. Votes: 0

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. Votes: 0

That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. Votes: 0

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. Votes: 0

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary... Votes: 0

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. Votes: 0

Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. Votes: 0

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Votes: 0

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life. Votes: 0

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. Votes: 0

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. Votes: 0

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. Votes: 0

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. Votes: 0

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Votes: 0

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life. Votes: 0

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.' Votes: 0

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life. Votes: 0

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Votes: 0

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money. Votes: 0

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. Votes: 0

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. Votes: 0

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. Votes: 0

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed. Votes: 0

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. Votes: 0

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts. Votes: 0

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. Votes: 0

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life. Votes: 0

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy Votes: 0

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob Votes: 0

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. Votes: 0

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent. Votes: 0

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. Votes: 0

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. Votes: 0

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without. Votes: 0

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. Votes: 0

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. Votes: 0

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. Votes: 0

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. Votes: 0

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. Votes: 0

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. Votes: 0

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' Votes: 0

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. Votes: 0

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. Votes: 0

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. Votes: 0

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do. Votes: 0

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life ... Votes: 0

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits. Votes: 0

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life. Votes: 0

I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the [American] Constitution. Votes: 0

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life. Votes: 0

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. Votes: 0

On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. Votes: 0

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. Votes: 0

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. Votes: 0

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life. Votes: 0

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. Votes: 0

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. Votes: 0

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life. Votes: 0

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American. Votes: 0

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. Votes: 0

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure. Votes: 0

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is Votes: 0

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. Votes: 0

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream. Votes: 0

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. Votes: 0

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. Votes: 0

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. Votes: 0

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. Votes: 0

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. Votes: 0

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life. Votes: 0

Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life. Votes: 0

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life. Votes: 0

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. Votes: 0

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder. Votes: 0

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. Votes: 0

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. Votes: 0

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. Votes: 0

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. Votes: 0

That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins. Votes: 0

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. Votes: 0

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down. Votes: 0

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. Votes: 0

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. Votes: 0

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships. Votes: 0

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher. Votes: 0

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. Votes: 0

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life Votes: 0

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life. Votes: 0

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles. Votes: 0

That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do. Votes: 0

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure. Votes: 0

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. Votes: 0

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. Votes: 0

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life. Votes: 0

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West! Votes: 0

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles. Votes: 0

[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. Votes: 0

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. Votes: 0

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. Votes: 0

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. Votes: 0

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution. Votes: 0

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government. Votes: 0

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. Votes: 0

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. Votes: 0

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values. Votes: 0

I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in the same place. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research. Votes: 0

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together. Votes: 0

That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American. Votes: 0

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries. Votes: 0

I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit. Votes: 0

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say. Votes: 0

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. Votes: 0

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman. Votes: 0

If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.' Votes: 0

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it? Votes: 0

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well. Votes: 0

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life? Votes: 0

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. Votes: 0

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated. Votes: 0

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life. Votes: 0

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. Votes: 0

I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress! Votes: 0

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people. Votes: 0

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated." Votes: 0

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads. Votes: 0

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language. Votes: 0

Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.' Votes: 0

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life. Votes: 0

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. Votes: 0

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity. Votes: 0

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. Votes: 0

American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it. Votes: 0

He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way. Votes: 0

I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian. Votes: 0

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life. Votes: 0

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century. Votes: 0

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life. Votes: 0

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed. Votes: 0

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper? Votes: 0

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. Votes: 0

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people. Votes: 0

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience. Votes: 0

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people." Votes: 0

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. Votes: 0

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. Votes: 0

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. Votes: 0

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. Votes: 0

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life. Votes: 0

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. Votes: 0

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence. Votes: 0

I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.' Votes: 0

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life. Votes: 0

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect. Votes: 0

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of its peculiarities and sympathy with its method... Votes: 0

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think. Votes: 0

Immigration law doesn't exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life. The work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. Votes: 0

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life. Votes: 0

Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly. Votes: 0

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies. Votes: 0

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism. Votes: 0

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture. Votes: 0