Famous Quotes: American

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
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Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.
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I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.
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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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Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
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Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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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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The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
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