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American Quotes
"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 like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American."
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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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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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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're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism."
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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 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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"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."
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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'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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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."
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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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"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
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"We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent."
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"This is America, where everything is still possible."
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"Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas."
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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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"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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"America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon."
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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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"So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story."
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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"We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well."
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"Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless."
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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