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“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”
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“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...”
Source : "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997. 
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“The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.”
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“Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.”
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“If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.”
Source : John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.11
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“In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.”
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“From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.”
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“The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.”
Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
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“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
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“I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,”
Source : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
