I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
Rupert Graves
SchoolAmericanScholarshipNever
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
Josephus Daniels
FreedomChallengeManShipAmerican
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
Harvey Pekar
PeopleThinkAmericanSome PeopleUp
When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.
Jennifer Lee
GoodFreedomFoodIdeasAmerican
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
Conor Oberst
WorkAmericanHimInspiredModern
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
Sam Donaldson
MindChanceAmericanNewsSeeOnly
I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
Michael Che
GreatMeSpeakAmericanComedyOwn
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart
AmericanAttractedFilms
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
Robert Dallek
MedicalVotingAmericanTradition
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
Monica Crowley
MenAmericanUnitedGroundedIdea
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Douglas Coupland
CarAmericanLongApologizePass
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
GreatAmericanNationConvictionOur
Celebrity is a big part of the American social system. I'm certainly grateful for what it's done for me, but I do think that celebrity is overdone in our society. I think it's got a dangerous side to it.
Robert Redford
GratefulMeSocietyThinkAmerican
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
Anohni
HistoryPainSlaveryAmericanLook
I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
Nathan Fillion
GoodHeroThinkThoughtAmerican
Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx.
Sukarno
SpiritualEqualitySocialismAmerican
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
Dana Rohrabacher
GovernmentWarAmericanNowLast
Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.
Russ Feingold
AmericanFindStopNewUnfairNeed
American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.
Josh Hawley
BusinessGovernmentAmericanAmerica
I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?
Hasan Minhaj
IdentityAmericanMoreKidExistAm
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.
Jenny Zhang
WomenGirlMenWritingAmericanYou
I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.
Corey Clark
LifeMeToughAmericanMy LifeFox
I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
Sam Heughan
AmericanYouKnowActorNeverBeing
The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
Michael Enzi
MoneyPeopleAmericanKnowMatter
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