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American Quotes
"Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero."
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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 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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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
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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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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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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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"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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"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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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
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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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"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."
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"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."
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"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
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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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"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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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."
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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."
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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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"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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"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
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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 felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."
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"America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth."
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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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"I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release."
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"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
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"Being an American musician means being adventurous."
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"President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it."
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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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"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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"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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