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My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well. — Steven Seagal

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American. — Brandon Flowers

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am ... I can't win. — Alona Tal

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed. — Bob Seger

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. — Chris Isaak

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different. — Crystal Bowersox

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
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"Ask me again in the morning. — Donna Thurland

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen

I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is. — Lars Von Trier

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now. — Mira Nair

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life. — Diana DeGarmo

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. — Jerry Brown

Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith. — Ariel Gore

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. — Ang Lee

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again! — Russell Means

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. — Junot Diaz

O my poor words, bear with me. — Theodore Roethke

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. — David Cronenberg

To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent. — Radha Mitchell

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity. — Lenny Wilkens

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen. — Dean Rusk

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. — Toni Morrison

I'm a typical American, half of me is dying to give myself away and the other half is continually rebelling. — David Foster Wallace

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman. — Muhammad Ali

Grant stood by me when I was crazy ... — William Tecumseh Sherman

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. — Carter G. Woodson

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud. — Denis Markell

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation. — Elizabeth McGovern

Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place. — Mike McCready

I knew youd never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life. — Zane Grey

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!! — Karlheinz Stockhausen

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. — Don DeLillo

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer. — Seungri

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people. — Anasazi Foundation

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema. — Christian Bale

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English. — Yao Ming

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. — Queen Latifah

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. — Jerzy Kosinski

It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done. — LeVar Burton

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall. — Fred Gwynne

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American. — Genesis Rodriguez

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. — Michael Imperioli

The truth is that I've always been fascinated with wealth in America. To me, it's been about the American dream and the corruption of that dream. — Leonardo DiCaprio

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. — Sherman Alexie

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself." — John Wayne

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. — Johnny Otis

I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists — Simon Tam

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. — Larry David

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. — Mary McLeod Bethune

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel. — Benjamin Netanyahu

This is my love line ... It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane. — Denise Grover Swank

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature. — Robin Sacredfire

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen. — Daniel Wu

So just to clarify, I always have my vagina with me. It's like my American Express card. — Jenny Lawson

He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him... — Elaine Kraf

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul. — Max Blumenthal

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. — Ida B. Wells

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. — Iris Dement

Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American. — Stephen Colbert

One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The trick set me up. It's that simple. — Shadez

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game? — Grover Cleveland

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough. — Todd Garlington

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope. — Lewis Black

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service. — Marco Rubio

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die. — Courtney Love

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum

Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent. — Estelle

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful. — Martin Freeman

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. — Rodney Alexander

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough. — Martin Gore

Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me. — Sherman Alexie

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms. — Allen Ginsberg

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese. — Ryu Murakami

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun. — Catherine Malandrino

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it. — Abraham Lincoln

The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me. — T. J. Oshie

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life. — Paul Shaffer

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill. — Ronald Reagan

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. — Dinesh D'Souza

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American. — Sharon Salzberg

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it. — Mike Nichols

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Totally could oust a government in a small South American country. That made me laugh. — Kristen Ashley

What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession. — Pippa Middleton

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation. — Francois Truffaut

IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON. — Amy King

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean ... ' I took no offense. — Linda Wells

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me ... by newspapers and the Bible. — Van Wyck Brooks

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. — Cristina Saralegui

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important. — Robert Sheckley

You saved me, you should remember me. — Louise Gluck