American Quotes
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone
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Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
Bob Beckel
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi Berra
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
Pat Buchanan
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
Barry Manilow
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen
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My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
Marina Abramovic
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There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
Daniela Ruah
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
Samuel George Morton
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
Gabrielle Giffords
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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American feminism’s nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
Camille Paglia
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A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.
B. Traven
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The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.
Dean Heller
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes
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I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.
Lauren Alaina
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
Carlos Slim
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I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
Rafer Johnson
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Harold Rosenberg