Quotes with [americans]

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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Susan Sontag Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Ben Nelson For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Billy Collins For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Bill Frist From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bobby Jindal Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Anita Loos I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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