Quotes with american-style

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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • C. Everett Koop You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ben Foster 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Art Buchwald A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Coco Chanel A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin Cohen A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
    The Question of Imperialism
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
    The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
    Book of Sports Quotes (1979) by Bert Sugar
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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