American Quotes
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.
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ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.
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Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.
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I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with my subjective understanding of what it means to be either of those things.
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This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
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I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.
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I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'
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European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.
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I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.
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Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.
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I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
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But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.
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How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other."
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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I don't really know how it feels for an American to go to Mexico, but if you come from Germany, Mexico is a really exotic place. It has this laid back vibe, at least in the countryside, and things don't seem to be as over-civilized as they are here in Europe.
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
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The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.
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My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
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I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
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I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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The anti-American policy is the one that keeps oil prices up. The way to do that is to help OPEC limit the amount of liquid fuel available.
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Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'
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At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.
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Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
