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Envy is the central fact of American life.
Race has no place in American life or law.
There are no second acts in American lives.
Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.
Evading military service has a long history in American life.
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives
American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.
When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.
It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
There is no price tag on an American life - whether it's in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
I don't think American life requires you to be on Facebook. It does require you to have access to the Internet.
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple 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!
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
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.
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.
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.
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.
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.
Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.
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.
Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
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.
When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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.