Famous Quotes: American

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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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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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.
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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
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I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
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Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
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I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
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