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

“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.”

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”

“America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

World America Nations Presidential United States Of America Idealist Great American Idealistic American Patriotic Great Patriotic American Patriotism American Patriot

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”

“Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.”

“There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.”

People Ifs War Ends Sides Lines Trouble Crisis Civil War Temper Artificial Both Sides Great American

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”

“As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.”

Concerned Jazz Contribution Great American Blues Music

Author:Edgar Winter

“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.”

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

Source: Sunset Boulevard

“When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.”

Should States Seems Would Be Today Heaven Clear Achieve Blessing Should Have Surprise Pearls Reflecting Harbors Great American Pearl Harbor Attack Reflecting Upon

Author:Hideki Tojo

“Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption.”

Political Corruption Criminals Islands Folly Providence Mike Buddy Mayors Charisma Great American Rogues Chronicles Rhode Island Paragon

Author:Philip Gourevitch

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”

“It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.”

Dies Novel Longing Worthy Conclusion Urges Magnificent Soar Great American

Author:Maureen Corrigan

“Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Knows Doe Said Speak Heard Mark Observation Repeats Rhyme Great American Rhyming Citing American Author

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.”

“When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.”

Writing Firsts Persons Said War Would Be Novel Feet Cold Pages Down And Sat Vietnam Wet Sheer Vietnam War Sock First Person Psychotherapy Great American Drivel Cold Feet

Author:Karl Marlantes

“Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.”

Should Writing Adventure Argument Memoir Posts Essays Tweet Paragraph Great American

Author:Constance Hale

“In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.”

Baseball Radio Combination Sandwiches August Peanuts Great American Jelly Peanut Butter Fortuitous Peanut Butter And Jelly

Book:Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game

Source: Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Ifs States America Nations Church Secret Power Heard Greatness Genius Goodness Be Good Cease Flames Righteousness Righteous Great American Pulpit Democracy In America

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.”

“This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.”

Wells May America Next Church Boys Sight Institutions Activist Homosexual Great American Boy Scout Boy Scouts Of America

Author:Jay Sekulow

“Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.”

Firsts Today Earth Missing Son Hero Moon Halls Heroism Astronaut Great American Armstrong

Author:Mitt Romney

“Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.”

World Education Learning Adventure Democratic Experiments Great American Colossal

Book:Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.”

Seems Desire Three Achievement Vices Unhappy Nervous Efficiency Great American Punctuality Achievement And Success

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.”

Marketing Great American Buyers

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.”

Book America Moving Novel Alive Written Integrity Originals Prose Marvelous Relentless Great American

Author:Sam Lipsyte

“I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board”

Men Want Country Nations Waiting Company Clear He Man Ready Messages Men And Women Finished Our Country Boards Worn Uniforms Spouse Great American

Author:Michelle Obama

“Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical.”

Men Feels Reason Shows Music Musical Currents Feel Good Broadway Revival Great American Music Man

Author:Meredith Willson

“I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime. The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me.”

Way Believe Art Important Ideas Stories Home Form I Believe Theatre Screens Innocent Hopeful Joyful Savages Great American Pastime Shared Experiences Movie Theatre

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.”

America Political Fear Proud Politician Decent Superiority Be Proud Great American Whipping

Author:Michael D. Higgins

“Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”

“Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.”

Wells Looks Process Couple Letters Historical Tone Great American Hypnosis

Author:Bruce Babbitt

“If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.”

Ifs Persons Sports Ugly Destroyed Hated Great American Squash

Author:Curt Flood

“In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.”

Country Company Blessed South Welcome Our Country Carolina Great American South Carolina Boeing

Author:Nikki Haley

“When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.”

Thinking Knows Men World Way Player Heard Balls Instruments Notes Guitar Fighter Great American Hendrix Ball Players

Author:B. B. King

“In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.”

People Men Trying Persons Courses Worry Stranger Noble Smoke Novelists Cigarette Automobile Great American Treacherous

Author:Daniel Handler

“Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.”

World Opportunity Felt Growth Cities Economic New York Chicago Expansion Really Great Great American American Cities Center Of The World

Author:John Green

“It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.”

States Church Party Principles Atheism Eternal Separation Creeds Maintaining Church And State Separation Of Church And State Great American Declaring Separation Between Church And State

Author:Elihu Root

“Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady”

World Cities New York Los Angeles Chicago Plastic San Francisco Constellations Great American Great Cities Cities In The World American Cities

Book:Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Source: Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

“I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.”

Thinking Art Form Dying Theater Jazz Musical Apples Pie Great American Musical Theater Apple Pie

Author:Laura Benanti

“Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.”

American Life Great American

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.”

Knows Writing Novel Fire Pages Caves Great American Superb

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.”

Light Politics Sun Sky Gun Unions Fists Light Up Great American Napalm

Author:Ray Davies

“I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.”

Done Wanted Song Records Collections Composer Great American Showcase

Author:Charlie Haden

“In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.”

Nations Class Conviction Great American

Author:Benjamin Jealous

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