American Quotes
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
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Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
