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American Quotes
"I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since."
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"President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it."
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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences."
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"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."
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"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
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"Being an American musician means being adventurous."
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"There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them."
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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
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"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."
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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."
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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."
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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."
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"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
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"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!"
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"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."
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"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."
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"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."
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"The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club."
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"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
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"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
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"I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."
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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board."
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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."
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"I have grown up in the bright light of America."
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"My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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