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There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. — Donna Tartt

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American. — David Douglas Duncan

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. — Nate Silver

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight. — Ron Atkinson

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

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears. — Mitchell Baker

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina. — Sarah Hall

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. — Ida B. Wells

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC. — Dominique McElligott

An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws — Mark A. Noll

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European. — Phil Neville

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. — Douglas Brinkley

First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable. — A. J. Jacobs

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang. — Hortense Powdermaker

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey

There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different. — Mark Kirk

Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper. — A.E. Samaan

It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen. — Warren Eyster

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West. — Mary Doria Russell

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. — Mary Landrieu

Mon ami,' said Poirot with dignity, 'when I commit a murder it will not be with the arrow poison of the South American Indians. — Agatha Christie

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War. — Anson Mount

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality ... I'm South American - we celebrate life. — Mario Testino

In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this — Mark Earley

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

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup. — Thomas Muller

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. — John Eisenhower