- Politics
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- 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
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020