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• Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

  Gavin Bryars

  Topics in Work

  Tags in American, Composers

• None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as wel

  Cleo Moore

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  Tags in American, Anything

• I’m a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.

  Seymour Hersh

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  Tags in American, Better

• I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.

  Gary Oldman

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  Tags in American, British, Accent

• On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

  Seth Low

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• An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

  Gary Miller

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• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

  Serge Lang

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• L.A. is my American city.

  Thomas Carlyle Ford

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• It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

  Gary Johnson

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  Tags in American, Successful, Running

• You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

  Gary Cherone

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  Tags in Historical, American, Band

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  Gary Bauer

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• An estimated 9,000 American citizens are killed every year by illegal aliens. That’s 25 American citizens per day killed by illegal aliens, averaging 12 by stabbings and shootings and 13 by DUI and related crimes.

  Russell Pearce

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  Tags in American, Related

• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in America

  Tags in African American, Violence, American

• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem just to avoid violence.

  Malcolm X

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• To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan’s first view of China – so rich, so soft, so unaware.

  Garet Garrett

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  Tags in American, Revolutionary

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

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  Tags in American, Possibility

• Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

  Scott Thompson

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  Tags in People, American, Canada

• I don’t know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

  Claire McCaskill

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  Tags in Keep, Completely, American

• And I think that every American – this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them.

  Scott Rigell

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English – the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

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