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American Quotes
"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
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"I don't like the American media - particularly Fox."
52
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours."
44
"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'"
39
"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
37
"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."
35
"Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington."
34
"We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations."
30
"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."
28
"I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts."
24
"We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to."
20
"I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect."
20
"None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well."
18
"I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries."
17
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
16
"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."
16
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
15
"In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country."
14
"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."
14
"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."
13
"If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it."
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"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
13
"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
13
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
12
"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."
12
"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."
12
"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."
12
"Being an American musician means being adventurous."
12
"Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie."
11
"President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader."
11
"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
11
"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
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"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere."
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