Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
I'm an American. I have constitutional rights.
Jon Voight is a consummate American actor.
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!
I have a Prius, but I'd love to have a white convertible like Richard Gere's in 'American Gigolo.'
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.
