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American Quotes by Mary McCarthy
- In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands…
- The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a…
- Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
- To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth…
- The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof
- The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of…
- When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have…
- The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a…
- The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congressthese, for the…
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca