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«She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.»
«There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.»
«Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.»
Author: Karen Allen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
an American, brazil, hemisphere, hemispheres, The Western, Western, western hemisphere
«Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.»
«The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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an American, crisis, game of chance, passing game, revolutionary
«To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continually. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
an American, birthright, confirmation, confirmations, continually, continued, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, gratification, instant gratification, lavish, lavished, lavishing, more or less, sensual
«The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
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admired, an American, boyfriend, boyfriends, courted, Englishman, film star, Hollywood, Italian, Italian A, The Italian
«Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.»
«Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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anti, an American, benefited, candidly, compared, context, critically, eternally, Europe, grateful, greatly, In Context, irresponsibly, media, My Country, news, news media, radically, sentiment, slings, slung, The News
«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.»
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