"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."

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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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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"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."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy."

Arthur Hertzberg, Polish Theologian

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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

Mohammed Aldouri, Iraqi Politician

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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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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

Paul Guilfoyle, American Actor

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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."

Neville Marriner, English Musician

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"The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep."

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"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."

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"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious."

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"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."

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