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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There is another way you can tell you’re a Republican. You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S. economy. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: ‘Don’t be economic girlie men!’
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For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are not going to find soft corals like in the western Pacific - places like Indonesia, Palau, or Fiji.
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There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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I would say I have compassion.
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I am the penny whistle of American literature.
