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• In fact that is the struggle that most Americans – As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

  Edwidge Danticat

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• I haven’t become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It’s just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I’d consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

  Tom Jones

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• As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

  Rick Danko

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• San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

  Cecil Beaton

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• Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it’s kind of like, oh!, and you can’t go out; you’re stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• After 10 years of French torture – psychological torture – it’s great to do an American movie.

  Emmanuelle Beart

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• I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I’m a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

  Brad Carson

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• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

  Charles Eastman

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• The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

  Charles Eastman

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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Eastman

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• The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

  George Wald

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• As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.

  George Wald

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• A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

  George Wald

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• 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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• The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations’ dues to sustain the UN’s operations.

  Frank Gaffney

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• If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

  Frank Gaffney

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• The Americans have always been food, s*x, and spirit revivalists.

  Edward Dahlberg

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• Being an American is such a rich environment, because there’s so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you’re able to see other people’s experiences.

  Rick Yune

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• The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration’s approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people’s House make the security of our Nation’s ports a priority.

  Russ Carnahan

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