Average American Quotes
69 quotes by 65 authors
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I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very…
— Michele Bachmann
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By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an…
— Steve Rushin
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
— Herbert Croly
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When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.
— George Carlin
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I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average…
— Neal Boortz
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For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
— Gore Vidal
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The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
— James Bovard
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
— Bill Bryson
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The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible…
— Robert A. Whitney
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a…
— Umberto Eco
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The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with…
— Rob Brezsny
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The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
— Paul Volcker
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We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be…
— Gore Vidal
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If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars…
— Jordan Belfort
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
— Abraham Verghese
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If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory…
— H. L. Mencken
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It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average…
— Niall Ferguson
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And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan…
— Fred Thompson
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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get…
— Jack LaLanne
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