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Being An American Quotes

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
- Harry S Truman

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
- Linda Tripp

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
- Henry James

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
- Craig Ferguson

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
- Pete Hamill

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.
- John Hench

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
- Damian Lewis

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
- Herb Ritts

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
- Michael Stipe

Being an American musician means being adventurous.
- Michael Tilson Thomas

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
- Rick Yune

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