American Quotes
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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.
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It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
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There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.
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And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.
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When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
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My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races - now common and accepted - were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.
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When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.
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Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
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the United States and Saudi Arabia...have instead used their influence to ensure that members of the old regime remain in power and the status quo is maintained. American counterterrorism agencies and the Saudi government have a firm grip on Yemen at the moment. It is they...that control the country.
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Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.
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I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
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'McCarthyism' means pointing out positions taken by liberals that are unpopular with the American people. As former President Bush said, 'Liberals do not like me talking about liberals.' The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.
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Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
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We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Chaka Fattah -
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
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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.
