American Quotes
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As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
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I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.
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I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
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Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'
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Conservatives are very upset at the idea of a single-mom family. But they do their best to create a lot of them by sending American men off to war to be killed.
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I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.
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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
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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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English superiority and American obedience.
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If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government.
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We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
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I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
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Coca-Cola is an American icon.
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The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.
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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.
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Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.
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In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
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I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
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My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
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I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'
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We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
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Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
