Famous Quotes: American

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.
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The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
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No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
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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 grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.
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The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
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Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
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