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American Quotes
"Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours."
232
"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
224
"I don't like the American media - particularly Fox."
217
"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'"
214
"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
189
"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."
171
"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way."
162
"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."
130
"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."
93
"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."
91
"We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent."
85
"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."
82
"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
73
"I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts."
73
"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
73
"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."
72
"None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well."
71
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
70
"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."
69
"We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to."
69
"I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me."
69
"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."
68
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
68
"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."
68
"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."
68
"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."
67
"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."
66
"When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out."
64
"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon."
64
"One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers."
63
"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."
63
"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
61
"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."
60
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