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“Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.”

Ifs Trying Embarrassed Meter

Author:Derek Walcott

“Americans are not by nature utopian but, rather, Americans are practical as Americans, as pragmatists, tend to work with that which is possible as opposed to trying to invent something that cannot exist.”

American Politics

Author:Charles Moscowitz

Source: Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party.”

Party Republican Corporations Republican Party

Author:Molly Ivins

“Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere.”

“Americans are not gonna conserve. We're not gonna shift to smaller cars. We can't - we have big, fat kids.”

Bigs Kids Car Fats Fat Kid

Author:Greg Giraldo

“Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.”

World War Europe Unions War Of The Worlds Soviet Dominant Soviet Union Default Second World War

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.”

Millions Media Constant Population Educated Manipulation Exes Misinformation Colonists

Author:Gore Vidal

“Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.”

Irony Renowned

Author:Andrew Dominik

“Americans are not saving enough for retirement.”

Enough Saving Retirement

Author:Tammy Baldwin

“Americans are not sharp. You can be sharp in your own area, I guess, but in this world you gotta be conscious of everybody else in the world too. You just can't be drunken with constitution and hear, okay we're gonna do this and then you hear well, we're gonna go kill this guy 'cause he's a terrorist and you keep gettin' it.”

World Wells Guy Causes This World Conscious Areas Okay Constitution Terrorist This Guy

Author:Chuck D

“Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.”

People Important Intelligent

Author:Ted Rall

“Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.”

Ifs America Used Bed Unusual

Author:Mira Nair

“Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.”

Suffering Lost Ability Crazy Mass Insane Psychosis

Author:Joseph Farah

“Americans are now in disarray”

Funny Military Disarray

Author:Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

“Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.”

Obsessed Mice Outlandish

Author:Lily Koppel

“Americans are once again looking outward”

Author:Dan Rather

“Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.”

Empty Optimism Paint Optimistic Emptiness Someday Wealthy Optimist

Author:Bernard Williams

“Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.”

Form Our Lives Corporations Malls Playgrounds Sidewalk Venues Opting Out

Author:Robert D. Kaplan

“Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.”

Excess Admirable Overreaching

Author:George Will

Source: Statecraft as Soulcraft

“Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.”

Jobs Energy Policy Energy Policy Pocketbooks

Author:Bob Beauprez

“Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.”

People Country Language Learning Refuse Continents

Author:E. V. Lucas

“Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.”

Lines Conservative Moderates

Author:Emilio Estevez

“Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.”

People Feels Country Goal Views Democracy Republican Democrat Point Of View Conclusion Desirable Promoting Skeptical

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Americans are ready to hate somebody -- and it's going to be the gun industry.”

Hate Ready Industry Gun

Author:Josh Sugarmann

“Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.”

People Giving Country Might Responsible Starting

Author:Emilio Pucci

“Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.”

Nations Cities Security Possibility Broken Integrity Concerned Terrorist Borders Crossings

Author:Chris Cannon

“Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.”

Tasks Rising

Author:George W. Bush

“Americans are shy about the body. I have to remember that when I go there.”

Body Remember Shy

Author:Ana Beatriz Barros

“Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.”

Knows Trying Ideas Government Running Company Know How Car Sick

Author:Lamar Alexander

“Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.”

Impossible Angry

Author:Kathleen Troia McFarland

“Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.”

Jobs Dedicated

Author:Jamelia

“Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.”

Knows Years Asks Five Plans Direct Tea Ask Me Five Years Tonight Five Year Plans

Author:Ashley Jensen

“Americans are so dumb!”

Dumb

Author:Bjork

“Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.”

Eye Feds Fragile Bubbles Plastic

Author:Florence King

“Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eyedropper.”

Psychology Psychiatry Cancel Culture Therapeutic State

Author:Florence King

Source: STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.”

Individual Nations Ignorance Equal Increase Slavery Democratic Equality Proportion Subjection Enamored

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.”

Looks West Surface Familiar Thrown Japan Inches Below The Surface

Author:Cathy Davidson

Source: 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan

“Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.”

Thinking Two My Own Feet Car Spoiled

Author:Lee Harvey Oswald

“Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.”

Sleep Impossible Sermons Tense

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.”

Life Lessons Stress Americans

Author:Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Source: The Golden Son

“Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.”

People Obsession Spots Obsessed Japan

Author:Utada Hikaru

“Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.”

Thinking Made Suffering Powerful Environment Anxiety Cynical Generator Suburbia

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”

Ifs Knows Years May Has Beens Home Next Lost Known Months Terrified Laid Off

Author:Ben Stein

“Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.”

Evil Satan Wounded Snakes

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.”

Ifs Wells Country Jobs Attitude Planets Europe Embrace Generous Australia Foreigners

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.”

People Children Earth Nations Generous Sentimental Unborn Unborn Child

Author:Walker Percy

Source: Signposts in a Strange Land

“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.”

People World Known Car College Anxiety Window University Native American Automobile Prompts Affiliation Colleges And Universities Rear Window

Author:Paul Fussell

Source: Class

“Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.”

Want Matter Today Able Lying Games Liberty Imagine Subjects Media Policy Tired Finance Foreign Policy Viewers Civil Liberties Barricades

Author:Ron Paul

“Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.”

Ifs Use Government Evil Fine Ugly If I Could Cheese Neglected Grind Dolphins

Author:Thom Yorke

“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”

Use Difficult Power Possession Guilty Perceive Materialistic Uneasy Use Of Power

Author:Joan Didion

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