Edgar Hilsenrath Quotes
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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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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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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There are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.
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Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.
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History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
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The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
