Quotes with [americans]

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  • Bob Corker The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Behan The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • James Baldwin The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bill Shuster The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Gamal Abdel Nasser The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
    Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Egyptian president and general (1918 - 1970)
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  • Campbell Brown The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Margot Asquith The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Frank Zappa The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Arianna Huffington The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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