American Quotes
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You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
Salma Hayek
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The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.
Don Kardong
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I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.
Jeff Duncan
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Alexander Haig
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
Gary Locke
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Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
Naveen Jain
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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
Kit Bond
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
Major Owens
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Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
David E. Sanger
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
Henry Paulson
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The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.
Dave Winfield
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American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.
Emilio Pucci
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Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
Jeff Merkley
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
Adam Cohen
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I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
Raul Labrador
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When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.
Mary Pope Osborne
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Georgia, like Ukraine and Moldova, is a sovereign state. If we accept, in practice, that Russia can alter borders by force, we signal to Moscow that it can violate international norms with impunity. We can hardly then complain if the Kremlin meddles in American elections, or orders murders on British soil.
Daniel Hannan
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Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
Allison Jones
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
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I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.
Chen Guangcheng
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
Sam Harris
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Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.
Kenny Leon
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You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.
Bill Maher
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville