Famous Quotes: American

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
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The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
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If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
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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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When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
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I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
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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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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
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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.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.
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We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.
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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
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Black history is American history.
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