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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

Charles Olson

American

Envy

Poets

Reason

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

Edward James Olmos

African

American

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Marvin Olasky

American

Struggle

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Hakeem Olajuwon

American

Soccer

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

I'm not saying that there weren't other inherent problems with the score that couldn't have been overcome with a bit of remixing, but why did they ask me to do it, and why did Griffin ask me to do it this way, for a film that had nothing to do with American vernacular?

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

I really have the American dream licked.

Ted Nugent

Dream

American

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.