American Quotes
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It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
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It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.
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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.
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Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
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Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
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I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.
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From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
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The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.
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We've always been just an American rock n' roll band.
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I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
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Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.
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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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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
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'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
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We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
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I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant and cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.
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It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.
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It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
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The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
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I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
