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Dustin Hoffman

"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."

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"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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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."

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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."

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

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

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

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

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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."

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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

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"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."

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"Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us."
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