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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Author:
Mortimer Zuckerman
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Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
Author:
Rick Yune
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I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
Author:
Neil Young
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
Author:
John Yoo
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Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.
Author:
Ron Wyden
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
Author:
Chely Wright
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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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.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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The short story, on the other hand, is the perfect American form.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Author:
John Wise
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
Author:
Steve Winwood
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Author:
Edgar Winter
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The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
Author:
Alex Winter
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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.
Author:
Kate Winslet
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The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Author:
Terri Windling
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In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.
Author:
James Wilson
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Author:
Ted Williams
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Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
Author:
Montel Williams
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
Author:
George Will
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.
Author:
George Will
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
Author:
George Will
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The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
Author:
Lenny Wilkens
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Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.
Author:
Richard Widmark
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And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Author:
Theodore White
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Author:
Theodore White
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Author:
Theodore White
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Author:
Patrick White
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere.
Author:
Shane West
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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
Author:
Rebecca West
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
Author:
Randy West
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
Author:
Randy West
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I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.
Author:
Allen West
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When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
Author:
Allen West
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I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Author:
Ida Wells
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This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
Author:
Robert Welch
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For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
Author:
Robert Welch
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It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
Author:
Robert Welch
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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.
Author:
Robert Welch
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone and they don't have to sit there watching the television set - they can turn this service on and in will come the flow.
Author:
Pat Weaver
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I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
Author:
Ruby Wax
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New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Author:
Harold Washington
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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
Author:
Rob Walton
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Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.
Author:
John Walters
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Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
Author:
Jim Walsh
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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
Author:
James Walsh
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We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Author:
Gordon Waller
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The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
Author:
David Wallace
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
Author:
George Wald
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
Author:
David Wain
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Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
Author:
Paul Volcker
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The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
Author:
Jon Voight
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I'm living the American dream.
Author:
Dick Vitale
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I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
Author:
Dominique Villepin
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.
Author:
Sid Vicious
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The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.
Author:
Jacques Verges
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I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.
Author:
Cyrus Vance
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Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
Author:
Ville Valo
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Author:
Jack Valenti
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
Author:
Skeet Ulrich
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Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
Author:
Mark Udall
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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
Author:
Tina Turner
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
Author:
Ike Turner
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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
Author:
Frederick Turner
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Author:
Alan Turing
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I am an American. I love this country.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Author:
Harry Truman
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When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Author:
Harry Truman
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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
Author:
Robert Trout
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
Author:
Robert Trout
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Author:
Robert Trout
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At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
Author:
Linda Tripp
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Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.
Author:
David Tredici
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The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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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.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
Author:
Michael Tippett
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The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
Author:
James Thurber
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
Author:
Dick Thornburgh
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
Author:
Fred Thompson
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When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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Being an American musician means being adventurous.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.
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Michael Thomas
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The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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I'm covering the worst president in American history.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.
Author:
Freeman Thomas
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Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Author:
Craig Thomas
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But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?
Author:
Nguyen Thieu
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.
Author:
Billy Tauzin
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I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
Author:
Audrey Tautou
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The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Quentin Tarantino
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We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.
Author:
Tom Tancredo
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The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.
Author:
David Talbot
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Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
Author:
Jalal Talabani
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
Author:
George Takei
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
Author:
William Taft
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The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.
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Stuart Symington
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Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.
Author:
Max Sydow
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Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Author:
Max Sydow
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Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
Author:
Ethan Suplee
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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.
Author:
Lawrence Summers
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
Author:
Joe Strummer
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Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.
Author:
Mark Strand
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
Author:
Mark Strand
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In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
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James Stockdale
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
Author:
Sting
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
Author:
Ezra Stiles
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Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
Author:
Fisher Stevens
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There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
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George Stephanopoulos
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Gloria Steinem
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Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
Author:
George Steinbrenner
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
Author:
Rod Steiger
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And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!
Author:
Rod Steiger
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Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.
Author:
Michael Steele
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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
Author:
Cliff Stearns
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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
Author:
Pete Stark
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I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
Author:
Henry Stanley
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
Author:
John Spratt
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Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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I write in American slang.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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If it's not American, the French won't go see it.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Author:
Steven Spielberg
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And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Author:
Margaret Spellings
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American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
Author:
Arlen Specter
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The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.
Author:
Tris Speaker
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
Author:
Al Spalding
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David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Author:
Terry Southern
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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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John Sousa
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
Author:
John Sousa
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I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Author:
Sonia Sotomayor
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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.
Author:
Shannyn Sossamon
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President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.
Author:
George Soros
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
Author:
Tabitha Soren
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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.
Author:
Robert Solomon
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At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.
Author:
Marla Sokoloff
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And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.
Author:
John Snow
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We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
Author:
John Snow
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
Author:
Martin Smith
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
Author:
Lamar Smith
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The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
Author:
Gordon Smith
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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
Author:
Alfred Smith
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Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.
Author:
Al Smith
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
Author:
Yakov Smirnoff
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.
Author:
Tavis Smiley
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And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
Author:
Curtis Sittenfeld
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That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.
Author:
Peter Singer
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You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
Author:
James Sinegal
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Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Author:
Nancy Sinatra
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I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
Author:
William Simon
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We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Author:
Paul Simon
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When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
Author:
Joe Simon
