Quotes with un-american

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  • Barack Obama I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
    Source: At a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 4 2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • John McCain I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Charles Dickens I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Adrian Lyne I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Andrew Young I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Miller I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Noam Chomsky I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: 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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  • 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.
    Source: Black Book magazine, Fall 2002
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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