Americans Quotes
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
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Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
Alison Lurie
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As every faith teaches us -- and as presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Reagan to Clinton have reminded us -- we must as Americans, try to see our nation not just through our own eyes, but through the eyes of others.
Joe Lieberman
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I think Americans have every reason to be worried about ISIS and the network of terrorist groups, because they have proven to be sophisticated and effective in wreaking violence and murder in many parts of the world, including in San Bernardino with their somehow connected radicalization of that couple there.
Hillary Clinton
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Americans around the country who came forward to make my 'bucket list' dream come true.
Brittany Maynard
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For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.
Paul Krugman
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I admit that I do not recall the speeches of Comrades [Earl] Browder and [Samuel] Darcy. I do not even recall of what they spoke. It is possible that they said something of this nature. But it was not the Soviet people who created the American Communist Party. It was created by Americans.
Joseph Stalin
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To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Ernest Istook
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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
Walt Disney
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If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
Muhammad Ali
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I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.
Buzz Aldrin
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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we'll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
Marianne Williamson
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We were the children of the 1950s and John F. Kennedy’s young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship” in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John F. Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with our white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truly the future he had envisioned for us.
Hal Moore
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Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.
Evan Bayh
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Americans are just like psychos. They run around in big circles and punch people, and there's always a leader. There's like, one big heavy dude just walking around going, 'get out of the way, or I'll break you!'
Ben Gillies Silverchair
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Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.
Nydia Velazquez
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Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.
Nicholas von Hoffman
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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America.
Oscar Wilde
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Americans are definitely workaholics, maybe the overall message of this poll is that there is a kind of bedrock faith in the idea that working hard pays off.
Cullen Murphy
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Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
Will Ferguson
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Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success the United Nations or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.
Albert Einstein
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Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligations of civil marriage, the sky will not fall and the institution of marriage will be even stronger.
Evan Wolfson