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

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

Sting, British Musician

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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

Hans Kung, Swiss Theologian

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

Lamar Hunt, American Entertainer

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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

Jeremy Irons, English 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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