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• Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

  Florence King

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in American, Enjoying

• American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

  Florence King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage, American, Interference

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, British, Accent

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Historical, American, Band

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  Warren E. Burger

  Topics in America, Fear, Life

  Tags in Fabric, Permeated, Crime, American

• North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  Fidel Castro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, American

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Revolutionary

• 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

• Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn’t in their neighborhood.

  Conan O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans, American, Neighborhood

• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Human, American

• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Beautiful, American, Breaking

• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Better, American

• Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  Adam Bennett Schiff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Suffering, Obligation

• Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Law, American

• I know only two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle,” and the other isn’t.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Topics in America

  Tags in Tunes, Music, American

• defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

  Charles Olson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Reason

• Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Satire

• I’m doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It’s my first LA theater project.

  Tatyana Ali

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Athlete, Actress, Celebrity

• American is the first democratic nation-state.

  Stephen E. Ambrose

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American

• We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, American