- 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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
- Market
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
- Dreading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American public through their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anti-Semitism has no business infiltrating American politics, it has no business infiltrating our college campuses, and it has no business in the halls of Congress.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020