Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.
American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
Probably the Liga MX or the American league, there are a higher number of competitive games than in the Spanish league or the English league.
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
By the mid-1950s, more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie.
I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
