"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."

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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."

Joel Rosenberg, American Author

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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

Randall Jarrell, American Poet

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"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"

Rod Steiger, American Actor

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"The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male."

Bill Bixby, American Actor

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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."

Tony Bennett, American Musician

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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

Jonathan Frakes, American Actor

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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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"It was part of your religion to hate the British."

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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

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"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."

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"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

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"But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth."

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"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."

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"War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums."

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"Reform is born of need, not pity."

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"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."

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"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."

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