American Quotes
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Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
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I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.
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Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
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The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.
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What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
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Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
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The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget.
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Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations
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The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.
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John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
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In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
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We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.
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There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.
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I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.
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I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.
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I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.
