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It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights
even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down. — John F. Kennedy

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

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Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman

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

What cooler way to grow up for an American boy than to be around cars and football? — William Clay Ford Jr.

'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

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle. — Prescott Bush

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA. — Phil Ochs

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

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY Prolific American author of science fiction and fantasy — Jack Canfield

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to. — American McGee

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better. — Macklemore

I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way. — Sienna Miller

I discovered right away at the airport that Italian men were way too attentive. — Glenda Helms

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. — Native American Saying

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way. — Homer

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. — Elliott Abrams

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.' — Ronald Reagan

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way. — Cynthia Carroll

I guess my ideals died the hardest. It's often that way with the children of immigrants. We need to buy the dream so bad we sometimes can't wake up. — Sara Paretsky

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work. — Adam C. Engst

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose

Convenience is the American way. — Cheech Marin

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

The American way of life is not negotiable. — George H. W. Bush

Only where there is life can there be home. — Joyce Carol Oates

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film. — Monica Bellucci

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. — Lewis H. Lapham

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. — Al Capone

No way. You won't catch Notley working weekends. Calls it the American disease, working all the hours God sends you. — Richard K. Morgan

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it. — Carl Olson

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone. — Rich Lowry

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President. — Jeremy Clarkson

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way. — Janeane Garofalo

I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one. — Rachel Bilson

It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American. — Erica Jong

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings. — Giancarlo Esposito

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American. — Eric Liu

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity. — Geoff Davis

We don't start a job that we can't finish ... that's the American way. — Paul Wolfowitz

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too. — Rosa Brooks

Ephram broke through. "You kiss me, woman! Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. Don't blaspheme who we is. — Cynthia Bond

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices. — Bill Bradley

The North American church at present is conspicuous for replacing the Jesus way with the American way. — Eugene H. Peterson

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values. — Barack Obama

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. — William Gibson

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life. — Dorothy Day

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. — Robert Spencer

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob — H.L. Mencken

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.' — Nigel Lythgoe

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood. — N.D. Jones

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. — James Q. Wilson

American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. — Nikki Haley

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A. — Nick Kroll

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day. — Will Durst

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford

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

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way. — Shawn Amos

If you're a Christian, Jew or Muslim, you're equally an American. That's the great thing about America, is the right to worship the way you see fit. — George W. Bush

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. — Bob Schieffer

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it. — Paullina Simons

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale. — Argus Hamilton

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. — Taylor Hackford

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? — Cullen Hightower

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978. — Adam Davidson

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians
are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides — James Quinn

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way. — Omar N. Bradley

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. — Paul Cornell

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

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. — Herbert Hoover

We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way. — Freeman Thomas

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. — Emmanuel Jal

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place. — Assata Shakur

Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation. — Nydia Velazquez

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for — David Foster Wallace

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly. — Teju Cole

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life. — Hanya Yanagihara

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. — Jennifer Lopez

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. — Luis Fortuno

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American. — Gabriel Iglesias

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way. — Barry Ritholtz

Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears. — Luna Lindsey

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic. — James Surowiecki

No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn't appropriate. — Marco Rubio

The American way is to not need help, but to help. — Anne Lamott

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way. — Dorothy W. Cosey

We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people. — Chris Christie

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn't acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. — Arundhati Roy

If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. — John Swartzwelder

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. — Douglas Brinkley

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. — Ron Paul

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. — Martha Stewart

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story. — Rachel Bloom

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way. — Freida Pinto

A brick could be used in a levitation demonstration. The best way to keep it afloat, along with the American Dream, is with debt and denial. — Jarod Kintz

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

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans ... — William J. Clinton

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. — Jerry Pournelle