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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
- Hemisphere
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been a dream to audition for 'American Idol.' But you have to be 15 or older.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- Announced
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
- April
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- Nov 07, 2020
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Envy is the central fact of American life.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020