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American Quotes
"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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"We didn't do an American tour because it I know it wouldn't go down well."
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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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"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 think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us."
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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 believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
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"The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy."
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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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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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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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"American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny."
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"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."
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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."
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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
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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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"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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"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
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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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"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."
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