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Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

~Amiri Baraka

Topics: American Before Contemporary Could Created Creator Dig Each Even Feeling He Higher Jimmy Make Other Sense Speak Speech Unimaginable

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I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: American Desire Everything Know More Smart Think Very Willingness Would I Think

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Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: All Year American Getting Halloween Holiday Just Keeps Like More Popular Seems Want Year

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We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: All Americans American Believe Cycle Kind Media People Perception Politician Politicians Reality Saving Tell Think Vicious Where

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We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

~Amor Towles

Topics: American Aspects Being Citizens Era Extreme Focused Majority Much Repression Russian Softer Study Them Type Vast Vast Majority

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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: American Country Except Forget Immigrants Much Native Native Americans Our People Pretty Tend

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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: American Baseball Creativity Game Hundred Hundred Years Knack Love More Other Our People Reader Short Short Stories Stories Than Two Way Years You

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In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

~Amy Chozick

Topics: American Clinton Felt Foreigner Hillary Huge Iowa Join Like Press Remember Straight Thinking Tokyo Too Traveling I Remember

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You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Always American American Values Blame Calling Cause Chinese Excellence Give Hard Hard Work Ironic Know Others Quote Striving Them Think Thought Up Values Work You I Think

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In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

~Amy Chua

Topics: American American Culture Back Books Children Chinese Chinese Culture Constantly Culture Kids Lesson Life Life Lesson Movies Need Occur Parents Points Question Score Shows Snappy Talk Taught Tv Tv Shows Who

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