Famous Quotes: American

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
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Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
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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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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
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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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The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
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The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
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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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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
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No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
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I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
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There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
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Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
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