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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."
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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."
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"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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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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"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"
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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
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"Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil."
Money
"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."
Heart
"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
Road
"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."
Love
"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."
Patriotism
"War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums."
War
"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
Heart
"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."
Time
"No man surely has so short a memory as the American."
American
"It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great."
Men
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