Famous Quotes: American

Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
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President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
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My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
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The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
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It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
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There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.
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Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
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