Quotes with african-american

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  • Brendan I. Koerner Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Bob Inglis Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Ben Hecht Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Brett Ratner Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Flores Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Flay My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler My documentary 'Split Decision' examines Cuban-American relations, and the economic and cultural paradoxes that have shaped them since Castro's revolution, through the lens of elite Cuban boxers forced to choose between remaining in Cuba or defecting to America.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Flores My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Moseley My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
    An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
    The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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