American Quotes
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming
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There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.
Frank Abagnale
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
Oliver Ellsworth
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
Gary Johnson
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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
Dylan Moran
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Gavin Bryars
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The American Pie success has been so wonderful for me, but it's also locked me into a certain type of role. It's limited my options.
Jason Biggs
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I'm not anti-American. I was raised to love both sides.
Emir Kusturica
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I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.
Narciso Rodriguez
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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In June of 1776, Richard Henry Lee, rising before the Continental Congress to move his resolution for American independence, declared: 'The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us; she demands of us a living example of freedom.'
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
Ira Sachs
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
Camille Paglia
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American literature has always been immigrant.
Salman Rushdie
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I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
Frances McDormand
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The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
Chris Kyle
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut. Imagine what you could do with $1,182 more in your pocket!
Markwayne Mullin
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Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
Chelsea Clinton
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I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.
Alice McDermott
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There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Charles Guggenheim
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul