Quotes with all-american

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  • Bayard Taylor The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • William Faulkner The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Source: Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
    Carson Grant
     
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  • Abraham Lincoln The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Orwell The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Kabbalah The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Willem De Kooning The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Bill Vaughan The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • W. Edwards Deming The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
    W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Katharine Hepburn The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • A. E. Housman The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Saroyan The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Charles Lamb The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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