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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

American

Being

Canada

English

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

Bill Murray

American

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Constance Baker Motley

American

Community

Treatment

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

Father

American

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Toni Morrison

American

Country

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

A great American city is fighting for its life.

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season.