"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."

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"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."

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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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"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, American Scientist

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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

Mohammed Aldouri, Iraqi Politician

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."

Neville Marriner, English Musician

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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

William J. Clinton, American President

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"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

Cesar Conda, American Consultant

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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

Austin O'Malley, American Physicist

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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."

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"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."

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"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."

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"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."

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"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."

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"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

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"I never enjoyed working in a film."

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"America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul."

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"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."

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