American Quotes
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Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
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American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.
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The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy.
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China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
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What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.
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Our troops are home. It's time for American business to replace the yellow ribbons with help wanted signs.
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
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You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
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I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!
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The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
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I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.
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Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.
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American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
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West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
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Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.
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An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
