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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. — Harry Browne

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. — Calvin Coolidge

Do you think I'm some sort of sex-starved loser?" "Well, you are American." "What!" Great festering tapir tits, that was a stupid thing to say. — Kevin Hearne

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. — Terry Teachout

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit. — Gish Jen

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. — Dominic West

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music. — Paul Oakenfold

If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars; — George H. Kerr

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream. — Mia Love

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places. — Gillian Anderson

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

As long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers. — Thomas Pynchon

I always thought I was singing American folk music. — Lonnie Donegan

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. — Zora Neale Hurston

The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. — Samuel Alito

Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free. — Teresa Lo

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. — Eric Balfour

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea. — Stewart Udall

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie. — Jay Inslee

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour. — Xavier Niel

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable. — Dick Morris

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless. — Henry Adams

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. — Harvey Pekar

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.' — Joss Whedon

The rising cult of ethnicity was a symptom of decreasing confidence in the American future. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. — P. J. O'Rourke

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31. — Dustin Hoffman

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

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan. — Kelly Miller

The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as — Mark Pendergrast

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. — Harrison Ford

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead. — Jay Baruchel

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

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American. — Luc Sante

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema ... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by. — Jacqueline Bisset

My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out. — Carl Froch

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it. — Raul Labrador

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past. — Don McLean

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. — Rachel Blanchard

They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell

Which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. — Dave Barry

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. — Kate Del Castillo

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press. — Robert Baer

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong

Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history. — Joseph Cummins

They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong. — Neil Gaiman

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. — George Galloway

At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it. — La India

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S. — Emily Mortimer

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was. — Daniel J. Boorstin

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7. — Sarah Hay

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw

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 Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it? — Deyth Banger

blunt conclusion was that "Christianity has an image problem" among American youth.48 Similarly, — Robert P. Jones

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. — Michael Caine

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. — Siri Hustvedt

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm. — Bill Nighy

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

Was a full-throated harangue, a typical performance when American officials speak about a regime not aligned with the United States. — Glenn Greenwald

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. — Don McLean

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child. — Craig Ferguson

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different. — Andy Biersack

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well. — Tom Brokaw

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles. — Marco Rubio

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

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. — Tom Perrotta

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

Was it possible to hammer 3.6 million American teachers into becoming master educators if their SAT scores were below average? — Amanda Ripley

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero. — Bobbie Ann Mason

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. — Ronald D. Moore

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. — Sally Ride

I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood. — Frank Rich

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

The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, he refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history. — Ron Chernow

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do! — Bernadette Devlin

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? — Marco Rubio

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative. — Geoff Dyer

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced. — Ruby Wax

All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express. — Milton Berle

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. — Bernard Bailyn

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong. — Isaac Asimov

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things. — Ellar Coltrane

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl. — Tom Petty

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American. — Michael Bloomberg