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Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out. — Ishmael Reed

If businesses are being given relief, shouldn't the same relief be given to the American people? — Tim Walberg

Henry Ford had the additional distinction of being the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's memoir of 1925. — Bill Bryson

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists. — Geoffrey Nunberg

I dare say being a receptionist at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square gets you a reasonable salary and all the nylon stockings you can eat, — Hugh Laurie

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed! — Bill Maher

I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together. — Janeane Garofalo

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

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. — Louis Simpson

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us. — Mike Huckabee

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever. — JoBeth Williams

Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair. — Vivek Murthy

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton

The American police had shot another child for being black and outside, and the child had died, there on the pavement in the company of his killers. — Sarah Moss

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me. — Alice McDermott

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. — Pete Hamill

It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country. — Sergio Martinez

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. — Patrick Leahy

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American. — Edward Dahlberg

The English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. — M. E. W. Sherwood

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. — T. Boone Pickens

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi, — Robert Harris

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. — Neil Kinnock

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American. — Anthony Hopkins

You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S. — Jeremy Lin

I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests. — Joe Biden

Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author — George Washington

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters. — Toby Jones

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent. — Ward Churchill

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. — John Cheever

I'm honored to be at the side of Michele Bachmann. She is a great congresswoman. She is a great human being, and she is a true American patriot. — Jon Voight

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen. — Jamie Bamber

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. — Alexander Payne

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. — George Takei

Being kind modified the extraordinary, alarming otherness of him, which was threefold - large, male and American. — Kate Atkinson

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get. — Veronique Vienne

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer. — James D. Watson

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place. — Dennis Miller

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific. — Cate Blanchett

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. — Gore Vidal

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. — Paul Begala

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. — Henry James

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled. — Colin Quinn

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else. — Malcolm Wallop

Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house. — Lisa Eley

It was Plutarch, you know, and nothing intrinsically American that prevented George Washington being a King ... — H.G.Wells

Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American. — Abby Wambach

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical. — Sara Novic

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to. — Thomas G. Stemberg

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them! — Rob James-Collier

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life. — Helen Caldicott

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. — Benjamin Rush

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European ... — Kingsley Amis

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. — Fred Whitehead

Why is the American black man so complacent about being trampled upon? Why doesn't the American black man fight to be a human being? — Malcolm X

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different. — Marcus Samuelsson

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison

People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American. — Jennifer Lee

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes. — Jeremy Lin

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. — Raquel Cepeda

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge. — Billy Joel

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. — Linda Tripp

I live in America. I love being an American. — Pink

Being an American musician means being adventurous. — Michael Tilson Thomas

Being religious is quintessentially American. — Denis McDonough

Being black has a lot to do with my ... — Willi Smith

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

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK. — Kurt Vonnegut

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies. — Ronald Reagan

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. — Jacob M. Appel

Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle. — Grace Meng

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

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American. — Jason Bay

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. — Aasif Mandvi

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful. — Robert Griffin III

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean. — Audrey Tautou

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high. — Christopher Hitchens

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American. — Edward Snowden

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American. — Laura Z. Hobson

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. — Daniel Craig

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media. — Sharon Stone

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American. — Janet McTeer

I have always thought that being a good American is appreciating the world, not just your own country. — Johnny Weir

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself. — Marsha Blackburn

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris. — Ann Mah

And the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything. — Henry James

DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR. — Amy King

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation. — John Ridley

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans. — Jack Nicholson

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. — Cassandra Wilson