American Quotes
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...have been here 20, 25 years, are integrated into the system, have children who are American citizens and, quite frankly, don't have a home to go back to in another country.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
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They have me in the tabloids all the time without my makeup. My friends always show me. But I don't care. Everybody saw me on 'American Idol' with no makeup so you know what you're getting!
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A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.
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From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
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We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
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When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
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Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
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As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
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To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.
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The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music. It's all an online business now, and that's, you know - the bookstore culture is a very vibrant part of the American experience that we're very reluctant to see go away.
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Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.
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I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
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New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
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We think that we are close to making considerable acquisitions in the European and American markets.
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After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
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I'm baffled that Mark Greenberg would send an offensive email politicizing the beheading of an American journalist.
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I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.
