285 Quotes About Americans
- Author Haleigh Kemmerly
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I'm a proud American girl! There's something about America that has a free spirit. We're rebels, fighters, dreamers, wanderers, and go-getters. I'm proud to have been raised in a Military family. I know what true leadership is. The true essence of the American spirit is that we're not quitters. We've gone through thick and thin to make America ours, to make it home. Happy 4th!
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- Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark
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It is possible to insult Americans?”“They are automatically insulted and enraged,” said the young composer. “They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and write letters to periodicals and congressmen. They gather in mobs and pay no attention. They hang people without trial and shoot citizens down with machine guns out of passing cars. They will despise you because you do not eat the same things they eat for breakfast. They even apply indifference.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Americans, too belong to a class—one responsible for and intrinsically tied to a history of torture, bombings, and coups d’état carried out in our name. And Trump has only heaped more upon the burden. In the global context, perhaps, we Americans are all white.
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- Author Nancy Isenberg
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We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while other can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His expression combined that of a Middle-western farmer appraising his wheat-crop and that of an actor wondering whether he is observed - the public manner of all good Americans.
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- Author Frank Luntz
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He knew instinctively that Americans vote for dreamers because they themselves like to dream.
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- Author Oliver Markus Malloy
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America is like an isolated information island. A lot of what happens in the rest of the world, a lot of the cultural exchange, never makes it to rural Alabama.
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- Author Eve Tushnet
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Yes. But I like Americans," she said, with a sigh. "Everybody likes Americans. You have to. It upsets them so much if you don't.
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- Author Kelly McGonigal
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Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.
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