Great American Quotes - Page 3

• People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a very patient and meticulous work, and you have to do it with joy and love for the process, not for the outcome.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Art, Real, Identity

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Pits, Next

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• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Republic, Wisconsin

  Remarks in Senate, 29 Feb. 1872 See Decatur 1; Chesterton 3; Twain 114

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

  David Letterman

  Holiday, People, Buying

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• I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

  Tony D'Souza

  Doubt, Students, Certain

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Player

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• Voy a hacerle una oferta que no podrá rechazar.

  Marlon Brando

  Película, Historia del cine, Películas de Hollywood

  "Personaje de ficción: Don Vito Corleone". "El Padrino", www.imdb.com. 14 de marzo de 1972.

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• The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

  Oso de pie Luther

  Nature, Native American, Men

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• Vas a necesitar un barco más grande.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspiración, Película, Noticias de Radio

  "Personaje de ficción: Jefe Martin Brody". "Tiburón", www.imdb.com. 20 de junio de 1975.

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  La tierra es la madre de todas las personas, y todas las personas deben tener los mismos derechos sobre ella.

  Jefe Joseph

  Madre, Nativo Americano, Derechos

  Discurso en el Lincoln Hall de Washington D.C., 14 de enero de 1879.

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• All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

  Jefe Joseph

  Brother, Native American, Reality

  Discurso en el Lincoln Hall de Washington D.C., 14 de enero de 1879.

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• I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Jefe Joseph

  Native American, Law, American Indian

  Discurso en el Lincoln Hall de Washington D.C., 14 de enero de 1879.

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

  Jefe Joseph

  Nativo Americano, Hombres, Blanco

  Discurso en el Lincoln Hall de Washington D.C., 14 de enero de 1879.

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• Compatriotas, no preguntéis qué puede hacer vuestro país por vosotros, preguntad qué podéis hacer vosotros por vuestro país.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiración, Inspiración, País

  Discurso inaugural, 20 de enero de 1961

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• Ser estadounidense significa no tener que pedir perdón nunca.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Amor, Película, Romántico

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). "Hocus Pocus", p.70, Penguin

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• 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

  País, Guerra, Creer

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• Me comí su hígado con unas habas y un buen chianti.

  Thomas Harris

  Película, Bonito, Gran Año

  "El silencio de los corderos". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Rain, Men, Rivers

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.5, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Records, Conflict

  Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”

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

  John Grisham

  Baby, School, Law

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2016

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  Este país no será un buen lugar para que viva ninguno de nosotros a menos que lo convirtamos en un buen lugar para que vivamos todos.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirador, Country, 4 th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt Paul H. Jeffers (1998). "The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations", p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Soñar, Escribir, Pensar

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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

  Kim Harrison

  People, Car, Unhappy

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• La primera paz, que es la más importante,
  es la que llega al alma de las personas
  cuando se dan cuenta de su relación,
  su unidad con el universo y todos sus poderes,
  y cuando se den cuenta de que en el centro del universo
  habita el Gran Espíritu,
  y que este centro está realmente en todas partes,
  está dentro de cada uno de nosotros.

  Alce Negro

  Inspiración, Relaciones, Sabiduría

  "La pipa sagrada: Relato de Alce Negro sobre los siete ritos de los sioux oglala". Libro de Alce Negro y Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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