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American Quotes
"Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America."
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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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"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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"I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world."
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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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"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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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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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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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
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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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"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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"If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her."
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"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."
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"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."
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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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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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"When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her."
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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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"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 have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."
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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
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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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"It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman."
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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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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
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