Quotes with american

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Carice van Houten American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Florence King American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Arlen Specter American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Edgar W. Howe American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Gore Vidal American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Bill Dedman American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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