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• Today’s multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they’d like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

   

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Liberty

• The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  Aaron McGruder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Control

• The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

  Eric Sevareid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in American

• Because liberalism typically doesn’t sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

  Rich Lowry

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in American

• I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

  Erich von Stroheim

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  Tags in American, Living

• Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

  Erich von Stroheim

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  Tags in American, People

• We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

  Carly Simon

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  Tags in American, Musical

• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

  Ernest Dimnet

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  Tags in American, Realize, Improvement

• The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

  Ernest Gellner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Car, Industry

• I’m not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

  Retief Goosen

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in American, Yet

• Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution… the clean rhythms… the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.

  Aaron Copland

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Tenderness, Exaltation

• What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

  Carly Fiorina

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, American, Need

• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Topics in Society

  Tags in American

• The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

  Ernest Istook

  Topics in Justice, Society

  Tags in American

• To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

  Ernest Istook

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  Tags in American, English

• Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

  Ernest Istook

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  Tags in American, Religious, Heritage

• White Americans have a short memory.

  Renee Ellmers

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in American

• I’ve never set out consciously to write American music. I don’t know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

  Carlisle Floyd

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  Tags in American, Music

• If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they’ll respond to it.

  Carlisle Floyd

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  Tags in American, Serious

• When I’ve seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can’t tell you what that phenomenon is.

  Carlisle Floyd

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  Tags in American, Phenomenon