Nelson Algren Quotes
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
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Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.
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I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
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We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.
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From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
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Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.
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I am the penny whistle of American literature.
