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Tag Name "Americans" (2886)

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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
Utada Hikaru
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
Jennifer Egan
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Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
Russ Carnahan
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Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan they don't have one. So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.
Uwe Reinhardt
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Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Glenn Beck
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Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.
Jeremy Grantham
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Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own.
Gordon S. Wood
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Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.
Sarah Palin
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Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated the lesson of history.
Russell Baker
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Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
George Will
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Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.
Jim Jordan
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Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is like a temple for them. And the people who write about it are really intellectuals. It's just a sensibility that they appreciate it.
Jerry Schatzberg
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Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
Georges Clemenceau
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Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.
Rachel Maddow
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
Vernon A. Walters
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Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
Vicki Robin
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Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
Alan Dundes
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Americans are once again looking outward
Dan Rather
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Americans don't like European movies.
Marina Abramovic
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Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.
Albert J. Nock
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Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.
Julie Taymor
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Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.
June Jordan
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