Quotes with swedish-american

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  • Barry Diller The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Carl Bernstein The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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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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  • 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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  • Barry McGuire The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Ben Harper The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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