 All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
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| In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. Author: A. E. Housman
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| An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba. Author: Aaron McGruder
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| Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. Author: Aaron Spelling
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| Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Author: Abraham Lincoln
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| Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? Author: Abraham Polonsky
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| America is huge. Author: Ace Frehley
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| France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Author: Adam Michnik
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| I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently. Author: Adam Michnik
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| Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. Author: Adam Michnik
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| Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets. Author: Adam Schiff
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| America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. Author: Adam Schiff
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| An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. Author: Adam Schiff
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| And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. Author: Adam Schiff
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| It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. Author: Adam Schiff
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| Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night. Author: Adam Schiff
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| The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. Author: Adam Schiff
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| While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. Author: Adam Schiff
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| In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes! Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. Author: Adolf Galland
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| We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation. Author: Adolf Galland
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| It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred. Author: Adrian Cronauer
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| I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. Author: Agnes de Mille
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| It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration. Author: Agnes E. Meyer
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| I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world. Author: Ahmed Ali
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| I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. Author: Ahmed Chalabi
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| The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. Author: Ahmed Chalabi
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| Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. Author: Al Capone
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| This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Author: Al Capone
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| As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. Author: Al D'Amato
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| As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy. Author: Al Gore
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| Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. Author: Al Gore
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| We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. Author: Al Gore
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| America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling. Author: Al Lewis
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| The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had. Author: Al Lewis
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| Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. Author: Al Roker
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| Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. Author: Al Smith
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| Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. Author: Al Spalding
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| I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. Author: Alain Prost
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| Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke. Author: Alan Dundes
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| Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past. Author: Alan Dundes
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| Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment. Author: Alan Dundes
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| Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. Author: Alan Dundes
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| I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. Author: Alan Dundes
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| An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. Author: Alan Greenspan
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| To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. Author: Alan Greenspan
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| There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Author: Alan K. Simpson
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| I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Author: Alan Lomax
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| The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. Author: Alan Price
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| Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. Author: Alan Rickman
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| So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior. Author: Alan Rudolph
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| No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Author: Alan Turing
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| In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Author: Alan Watts
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| In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Author: Albert Einstein
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| But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information. Author: Alberto Gonzales
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| We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. Author: Alberto Gonzales
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| My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games. Author: Alberto Juantorena
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| If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. Author: Alcee Hastings
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| If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq. Author: Alcee Hastings
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| Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Author: Alden Nowlan
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| Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. Author: Aldrich Ames
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| The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. Author: Aldrich Ames
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| My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States. Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski
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| Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. Author: Alex Campbell
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| We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. Author: Alex Campbell
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| The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is. Author: Alex O'Loughlin
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| The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element. Author: Alex Winter
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| America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Author: Alexander Graham Bell
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| I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. Author: Alexander Haig
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| I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Author: Alexander Jackson Davis
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