"My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

Sting, British Musician

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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

Hans Kung, Swiss Theologian

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."

Simon Cowell, British Entertainer

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"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

Lamar Hunt, American Entertainer

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."

"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."

"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."

"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

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"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."

"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."

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"Prohibition has made nothing but trouble."

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"I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand."

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."