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American Quotes
"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 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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"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."
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"The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy."
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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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"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 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 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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"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 was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
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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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"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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"I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture."
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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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"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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"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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"I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
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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 have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."
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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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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
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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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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
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