American Quotes
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Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient.
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You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
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It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.
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American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
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I like cable stuff; I really do - 'American Horror Story,' 'American Crime Story.'
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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. And I don't pretend to know exactly Iraqi public opinion. But as soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be.
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American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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I founded the American Red Cross.
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All stories boil down to good vs. evil, and that's what the archetypal American Western was.
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The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
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'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
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In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.
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I love American food, but I also love Latin food.
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As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.
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I support American energy production, and it will be produced by companies - Exxon, BP, Shell - and continue to support American energy.
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For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?
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The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.
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I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance policies that level the playing field for American workers and incentivize investing in jobs here at home.
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It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
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Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
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I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.
