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• 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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• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

  Richard Perle

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• 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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• 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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• Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you’d succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

  Curt Flood

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• If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

  Curt Flood

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• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

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• There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

  Carrie Underwood

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• American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

  Carrie Underwood

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• The Native American side was tragic. It’s just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

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• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

  Charley Reese

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• All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

  Pat Paulsen

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• Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

  Charles Marstiller Vest

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• We are Americans. We – we – we are – we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are – we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

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• In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

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• So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

  Rodrigo Rato

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• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker’s wages remain stagnant.

  Ed Pastor

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• I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

  Ed Pastor

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• I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

  Ed Pastor

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