- Day
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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
- Before
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.
- Coins
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originally, Congress provided in 1793 that all foreign coins circulating in the United States be legal tender. Indeed, foreign coins have been estimated to form 80 percent of American domestic specie circulation in 1800.
- Banking
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- Nov 07, 2020
War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.
- Impression
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- Nov 07, 2020