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American Quotes
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell."
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"America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore."
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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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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
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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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"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 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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"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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"Regis has a great rapport with the American public."
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"Being an American musician means being adventurous."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
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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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"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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"I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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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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"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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"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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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson."
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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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"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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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
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"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."
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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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"Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities."
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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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"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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