American Quotes

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

You never know when you're going to have to fight or take your clothes off.

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.

I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.