American Quotes
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The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
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Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
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Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.
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It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions
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Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.
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When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
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I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.
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The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
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When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.
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I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
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Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.
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I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
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In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.
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Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
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The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
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American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins.
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Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.
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I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.
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It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
