American Quotes
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My first album after 'American Idol' I did with Desmond - we paid for it together, and we literally were together working on it every day for a year and half, just writing. We wrote in New York, Nashville, L.A., Sweden - we wrote with some other amazing songwriters like Diane Warren, too.
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It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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American workers are first rate.
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The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
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Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
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When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.
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Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.
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The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.
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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
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An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.
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I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
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I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?
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'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.
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My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.
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American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.
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The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.
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When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah
