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“We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.”

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Author:Roger Waters

“[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.”

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Author:Hal Holbrook

“Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.”

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Author:Billy Gibbons

“I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.”

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Author:Richard Masur

“So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.”

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Author:Stephen Karam

“Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.”

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Author:Tim Cook

“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.”

“The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.”

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Author:George Saunders

“It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.”

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”

“I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.”

“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.”

“Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.”

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Author:Jay Michaelson

“I wanted to honor [George Gershwin]. He's a great American songwriter.”

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Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and any idiot can make it in 20 minutes on a hot plate. It's cheap and uses readily available commercial ingredients. And it's delicious. It should be the great American dish - perfect late-night stoner dorm food for college kids on a budget.”

“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.”

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Author:Rich Fulcher

“From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.”

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Author:John Hurt

“I'm playing the Great American Songbook - all the blue-sky, puffy-cloud classics. Music that's been missing. I want to be one of the people who ushers it back in. Long as I can do that, man, I'm happy.”

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Author:Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

“I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I meet a young man from Somalia. I meet a young man from Eritrea who engages with this nation with a sense of hope and a sense of desire. But we also we know that there are other elements of this nation that are toxic.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“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.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.”

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Author:Charles Haynes

“I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.”

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Author:Molly Ringwald

“The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great American experiment - in keeping our democracy functional. People have very strong opinions about what that means and how information should be disseminated to a population that requires information.”

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Author:Thomas Sadoski

“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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“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.”

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Author:Walter Isaacson

“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.”

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Author:Katie Kitamura

“I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.”

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Author:Rabih Alameddine

“I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.”

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Author:Brenton Thwaites

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

“The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“After all, tomorrow is another day.”

“If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

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“Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'”

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Author:Daniel Tammet

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

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