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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."

"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"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."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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