H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
W. Edwards Deming -
There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
Damian Lewis -
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph G. Neas -
When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
Rainbow Rowell
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
Vanessa Bayer -
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
Samantha Power -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis -
I have an unfortunate personality.
Orson Welles -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt -
The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
R. T. Rybak -
I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
Fernando Alonso -
Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
Sally Quinn -
The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.
Kenya Barris -
I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
Patricia Schroeder -
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
Abraham Lincoln -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken