- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.
- Anchor
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- Nov 07, 2020
How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.
- American Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: 'e pluribus unum,' which in Latin means, 'from the many, one.' That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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- Nov 07, 2020
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
- Foods
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- Nov 07, 2020