The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?
In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.
Nobody in America lives at the survival level, Most people in the world would love to live the way poor Americans live.
Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.
I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.
America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.
My dream is to play in the MLS maybe, because I love the lifestyle in America. Doesn't matter - New York, L.A. - I want the big city.
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.
Americans are not gonna conserve. We're not gonna shift to smaller cars. We can't - we have big, fat kids.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!
I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.
If you live in the States, you have to join a gym.
Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley.
The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.
