“ Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. ”
- A. A. Milne- Copy
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“ Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
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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. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
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“ Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. ”
- Theodore White- Copy
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“ In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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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. ”
- Timothy Dwight- Copy
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“ We want to be known as an American luxury brand and eventually as an international luxury brand. ”
- Richard Cohen- Copy
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“ We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.... The world needs his message today more than ever before. ”
- Morgan Freeman- Copy
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“ Wit is not only the luck and labour, but also the dexterity of thought, rounding the world, like the Sun, with unimaginable motion; and bringing swiftly home to the memory universal surveys. ”
- William Davenant- Copy
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“ To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world! ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
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“ American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen. ”
- Tony Benn- Copy
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“ We should cooperate with others in the fight against terrorism around the world, in whatever ways are appropriate and possible. Because it's a global threat, invulnerability is global. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! - King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. ”
- Madeleine K. Albright- Copy
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“ As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
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“ The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others — this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly… ”
- George F. Will- Copy
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“ It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ We all make our contributions to the world and I suppose mine will not be to the literary treasures of the western civilization,... But I do hope to contribute in my own way, and one of those ways is to bring closer the day when every child and every American learns to read. ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
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“ We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. ”
- Josiah Gilbert Holland- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself. ”
- Frank Oz- Copy
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