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Gordon Lightfoot

"I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees."

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"I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees."

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Amber Hurdle

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."

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

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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!"

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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."

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"So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story."

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"All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters."
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"Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame."
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