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American Quotes
"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing."
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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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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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"I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us."
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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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"America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
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"I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade."
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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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"This is America, where everything is still possible."
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"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
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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 think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking."
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"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
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"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."
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"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
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"Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx."
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"The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."
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"The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them."
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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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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson."
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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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"The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films."
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"I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread."
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"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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