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"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."

Iris Dement, American Musician
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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

Newt Gingrich, American Politician
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"So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon."

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"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."

Tallulah Bankhead, American Actress
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist
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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."

Robert Pattinson, English Actor
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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."

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"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."

Jesse Jackson, American Activist
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"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."

Margaret Whiting, American Musician
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."

Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist
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