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• What a privilege it is to be an American!

  Thomas Starr King

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• When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

  Shimon Peres

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• Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

  John Podhoretz

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• ‘The more expensive the better’ is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

  Macklemore

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• About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

  Sherwood Boehlert

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• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  Carl Paladino

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• Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

  Atom Egoyan

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• I’ve absolutely lived the American dream.

  Rick Scott

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• The American Dream is about freedom.

  Rick Mears

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• We want to add an American League pennant… and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

  Thomas Ollis Hicks Sr.

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• A youthful American voice isn’t particularly challenging – I’ve been a young American, and they’re all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

  Gene Wolfe

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• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Gene Tierney

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• That’s probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Gene Siskel

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• I’m in a weird band. We’ve done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

  Gene Simmons

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• When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like ‘The Artist’ that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

  Harvey Weinstein

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• When we talk about Oscars, it’s almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

  Harvey Weinstein

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• I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

  Geena Davis

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• I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

  Clifford Geertz

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• Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he’s just really doesn’t have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it’s difficult and what he’s really doing.

  Shannyn Sossamon

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• I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.

  Cliff Stearns

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