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American Quotes
"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."
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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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"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
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"One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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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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"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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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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"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."
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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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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."
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"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."
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"I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!"
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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
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"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
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"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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"I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."
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"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."
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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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"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
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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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"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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"I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release."
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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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"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either."
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"Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code."
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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."
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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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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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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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"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me."
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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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