Alistair Cooke Quotes
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
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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.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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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.
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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'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.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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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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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.
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On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
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We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.
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A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.
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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
