"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

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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."

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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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"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."

John Corigliano, American Composer

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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."

Morgan Freeman, American Actor

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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."

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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too."

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"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."

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"We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

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"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."

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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

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