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		American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
	
	  Baltasar Kormakur Baltasar Kormakur
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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.
	
	  Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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		The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
	
	  Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates
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		I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
	
	  Samuel Barber Samuel Barber
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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.
	
	  Fareed Zakaria Fareed Zakaria
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		I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
	
	  Macaulay Culkin Macaulay Culkin
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		One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
	
	  Madeleine M. Kunin Madeleine M. Kunin
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		Hope is not a matter of age.
	
	  Abbe Pierre Abbe Pierre
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		Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
	
	  W. H. Davies W. H. Davies
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		Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
	
	  Adam McKay Adam McKay
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		I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
	
	  Waris Ahluwalia Waris Ahluwalia
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		An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
	
	  A. J. Liebling A. J. Liebling