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Great American Quotes

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.
- Bruce Babbitt

Labour day is a great American holiday that people
celebrate by going out and buying products
made in China
- David Letterman

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
- Dan Quayle

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
- Ty Cobb

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
- John Corry

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.
- Morris Dees

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
- Curt Flood

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
- Paul Getty

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
- John Gould

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
- John Grisham

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.
- Charlie Haden

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.
- Nikki Haley

The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!
- Kim Harrison

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.
- J D Hayworth

I'm a miner, and I'm always dirty, because I'm constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I'm unearthing this hearty land searching for the next great American novel. If I dig deep enough, I'm sure to find it.
- Jarod Kintz

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I'd love nothing more than to drink it.
- Jarod Kintz

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.
- Jarod Kintz

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- W Somerset Maugham

IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created. If you don't write at all you won't know how "great" that simple book can be.
- Shiree Mccarver

A great American city is fighting for its life.
- Marc Morial

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.
- Michelle Obama

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.
- Ishmael Reed

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
- Mitt Romney

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.
- Theodore Sturgeon

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.
- Hideki Tojo

There's nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face... I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. That's a difficult statement to live up to, but then I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
- Tom Waits

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
- Edgar Winter

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