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American Quotes
"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."
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"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues."
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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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"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill."
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"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy."
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"I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us."
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"To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent."
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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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"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 whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."
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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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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching."
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"Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance."
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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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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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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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"I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also."
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"The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy."
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"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
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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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"At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs."
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"I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you."
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"I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?"
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."
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"President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it."
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