"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

Billy Crystal, American Comedian

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

Nina Simone, American Musician

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

Patrick Stewart, English Actor

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"I get all fired up about aging in America."

Willard Scott, American Entertainer

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"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."

Joan Collins, American Actress

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"Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent."

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"Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community."

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"One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked."

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