American Quotes
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I am an American – Chicago born.
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Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.
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I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.
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I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.
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Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
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Driving in clouds of dust and darkness beyond the outer suburbs the self-starter began to smoke. Grovelling under the vehicle among the ants and young scorpions, fearful of losing our feet when the great American lorries roared past, we attained the feeling of comradeship that only comes in moments of adversity.
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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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I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.
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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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Rumors of the American demise... have been greatly exaggerated.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
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Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
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I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.
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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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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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The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
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While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.
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America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
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I am the penny whistle of American literature.
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I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
