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• I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Writer, Speech

• We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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  Tags in Music, American, House

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in American

• People are always angry at America. They’re absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• I’m old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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  Tags in American

• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  Francine Busby

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  Tags in Learn, Wanted, American

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  Quentin Tarantino

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  Tags in Like, American

• When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that’s a big production, to them it’s a guerrilla shoot.

  Gideon Raff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Counterparts

• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Friendly, Suspicious

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  Barry McCaffrey

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  Tags in American, Today

• The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.

  Barry Diller

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  Tags in Night, American

• If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

  Gerhard Schroder

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  Tags in American, Policy

• My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Impression, American, Policy

• In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

  Gerard Depardieu

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  Tags in Film, Industry, American

• Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.

  Gerard Arpey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Fuel, Costs

• At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I’m pretty sure we’re just getting started.

  Gerard Arpey

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  Tags in American, Airline

• An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

  Gerald R. Ford

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  Tags in American, Tragedy

• The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

  Tris Speaker

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

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  Tags in American, Nightmare

• You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Future

  Tags in American