American Quotes
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.
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Here's the American situation - we have moved from a culture of independence to a culture of dependence. We have moved from capitalism into the direction of socialism. We have moved from being a beacon of strength internationally to a position of weakness.
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The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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American music culture is black culture.
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I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16, then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
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The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
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I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
