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"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner
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"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman." »Sandra Cisneros
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American." »Daniel Webster
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"I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American." »Daniel Webster
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"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." »John F. Kennedy
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"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject." »Elija Lovejoy
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"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American." »Maya Angelou
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"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all." »Teddy Roosevelt
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"The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." »Peter Ustinov
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"What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American." »Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
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"But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." »Geoffrey F. Albert
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes
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"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish." »Virgil Thompson
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"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American." »Malcolm X
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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""The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment." »Med Jones
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"American can do better, and help is on the way." »John Kerry, speech in 2004
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"The 100% American is 99% an idiot." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I let the American people down." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"An American is a man with two arms and four wheels." »A Chinese Child
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"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes." »Gore Vidal
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"I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American." »A. F. Shaw
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"All American cars are basically Chevrolets." »Herb Caen
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"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them." »Calvin Coolidge
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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." »J Danforth Quayle
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"There is a need for heroism in American life today." »Vicki Baum
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"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease." »John Corry
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"I greet you as the shapers of American society." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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