Quotes with all-american

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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Rock I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bunker Roy I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat, teacher, doctor - all laid out.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Source: Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Seneca I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anne Grant I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
    J. R. Tolkien
     
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Annie Dillard I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Rebecca West I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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