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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
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Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
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Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for women and the lazy. His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
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One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 114 -
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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