Quotes with chinese-american

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  • Alan Dundes I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Anita Loos I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Beck I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
    Spin magazine, December 1999
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Malcolm X I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
    The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Art Linkletter I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Jung Chang I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Adam Michnik I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Beck I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
    Black Book magazine, Fall 2002
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anita Hill I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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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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  • Lord George Byron I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bella Heathcote I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.
    Bella Heathcote
    Australian actress (1987 - )
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Anne Rice I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Betty Parsons I'm so American that I had grandfathers who actually fought a battle against each other.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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