Great American Quotes - Page 9

• I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.

  David Duchovny

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.

  Eric Stoltz

  Jobs, Writing, Paper

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• Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.

  George Takei

  Country, Stars, Thinking

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• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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• Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

  Froma Harrop

  Football, Two, Gambling

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• The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Thoughtful, Appreciate, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Heart, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with a heavy emphasis on psychological realism. If you limit yourself to a certain kind of American literary fiction, it's easy to forget about the different kinds of books that are being written. You can forget to be ambitious, both as a reader and a writer.

  Katie Kitamura

  Book, Ambitious, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Perfect, Jazz

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• I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.

  Donald Trump

  Men, People, Facts

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

  Eduardo J. Padron

  College, Community, Invention

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• Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Writing, Challenges

  Tenth President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, First Broadcast 10 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

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• President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

  Amy Poehler

  Monday, President, Parks

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• The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

  Ty Cobb

  War, Games, Nerves

  Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

  Ishmael Reed

  Dog, New Orleans, Popcorn

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• I feel the need... the need for speed.

  Tom Cruise

  Movie, Gun, Great Year

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jan 24, 2013

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• The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

  Black Elk

  Stars, Native American, Wind

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing.

  George Carlin

  Country, Shopping, Addiction

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• We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan. That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, War, Winning

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• I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a British accent. When they talk to me, at first they go, "Man, you have a great American accent," and I go, "No, no, no, this is my accent. I don't do accents." And then they're really disappointed, and they try to punch me.

  Rich Fulcher

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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• Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

  Dan Quayle

  Sports, Games, Horseshoes

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