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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • American
  • Stand

• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Years
  • Three

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

  

  Harland Williams
  • American
  • Pride
  • Citizen

• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • American
  • Win
  • Gold

• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • War
  • Key

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Time
  • American
  • Study

• 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
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • American
  • You
  • Stand

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • American
  • Education
  • Recess

• Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • American
  • Serious
  • Military

• My father was haunted. He was bad at conjuring small talk, he watched very little TV, because once Conscious, every commercial, every program must be strip-mined for its deeper meaning, until it lays bare its role in this sinister American plot.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Bad
  • Father

• We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • American
  • Continue
  • Workers

• As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Writing
  • True
  • House

• You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • People
  • Friends
  • Happy

• The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Prayer

• Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • American