American Quotes
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The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
Kit Bond -
As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
Karl Shapiro
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I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.
Ella Mai -
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Jill Lepore -
It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
Sam Heughan -
Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
Andrew Lincoln -
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton -
I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
Gary Burghoff
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann -
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
Earl Blumenauer -
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel Washington -
I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.
Marlon James -
Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
Candice Glover -
I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.
David Archuleta
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
Kate Bernheimer -
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.
J. C. Watts -
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Rachel Weisz -
Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.
Dennis Prager -
If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.
David Chang -
I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.
John Cornyn
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
Adam McKay -
When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Edmund Burke