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Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.
Christoph Waltz
Believe
Living
Other
Way
Around
Still
American
Often
Working
Europeans
American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
Christopher Buckley
Better
Political
Will
Criteria
Rather
More
Variety
Tend
Over
Namely
Voters
Employ
Make
Scientific
Material
Provide
Years
American
Decisions
Us
Next
Who
Professional
Based
Four
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.
Christopher Darden
Law
Take For Granted
Say
Those
Would
About
General
Take
Know
Most
Question
Very
American
Interesting
Little
Us
Granted
Things
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.
Christopher Dawson
World
Only
Never
New
Content
Always
Continent
Been
Western
Western World
American
New World
Just
Just One
Literature
American Literature
Aspired
Many
Among
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Christopher Dodd
Food
Easy
Eat
Supermarket
Shelf
Forget
American
Appear
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
Christopher Dodd
Freedom
Privacy
Will
Gender
Live
Every
Respected
Circumstances
Ability
Economic
Take
Go
His
Effort
American
As Far As
Regardless
Race
Them
Far
Ethnicity
Deserves
Her
Every American
Chance
American workers are first rate.
Christopher Dodd
First
Rate
First-Rate
American
Workers
American Workers
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
Christopher Gadsden
Nature
Liberty
Cause
Human Nature
Changed
Never
Opinion
Am
Still
American
Human
Stamp
Sentiments
Act
Downward
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton
Capitalism
Women
Girl
Say
Definition
Would
Give
Had
American
Whereby
Process
Turn
American Women
You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
Christopher Hitchens
You
Arab
Polish
Greek
American
English
Why
Why Not
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher Lasch
Today
Overcome
Sense
Possibility
Banality
American
Endless
Order
Against
Social
Social Order
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Christopher Lasch
Family
Capitalism
Law
Will
Single
Attempt
Support
Maintain
Longer
Industry
Unwritten
Wage
Wages
American
Level
It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
Christopher Plummer
Work
Culture
Hell
Those
Voice
Had
Like
Am
Very
American
American Culture
Flatten
Used
English
My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
Christopher Rouse
Great
Me
Father
First
Films
Favorite
Would
Classic
Directors
David
Lean
Always
His
Foremost
Lot
Discuss
American
Endlessly
Just
Fan
Story
Watch
One of the great, and largely forgotten, triumphs of American society and government has been how smoothly U.S. farmers and their communities negotiated the creative destruction of the early 20th century and emerged triumphant when it was over.
Chrystia Freeland
Government
Great
Creative
Destruction
Society
Has-Been
Emerged
Triumphant
Triumphs
Over
How
Smoothly
Been
American
Forgotten
Century
American Society
Communities
Farmers
Largely
Early
Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.
Chrystia Freeland
Politics
State
He
Powerful
Identified
Because
Reagan
Issue
Legacy
American
Central
American Politics
I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.
Chuck Berry
Buy
Home
Me
Saw
Kids
Hoped
Some
More
Write
Never
Studio
Liked
Course
Go
Very
American
Then
Connect
If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
Chuck Grassley
Strategy
States
Would
Would-Be
Could
Pricing
Outside
Re-Evaluate
Drug Companies
Forced
Access
American
Legally
Then
Companies
United
United States
Prescription
Prescription Drugs
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.
Chuck Grassley
Legal
Competition
Considered
Responsive
More
Consumers
Import
Industry
Always
Making
Issue
Imports
Domestic
American
Create
Keep
Prescription
Prescription Drugs
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.
Chuck Hagel
Problems
Big
Think
President
Worse
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Obama
Some
Entire
Cases
Inventory
He
Since
Overall
Well
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Than
American
Any
Maybe
Biggest
Roosevelt
American President
Certainly
Inherited
Ever
My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.
Chuck Norris
Worry
Corporations
Says
Obama
Percent
He
Hiring
American
Upper
Going
Tax
Biggest
Taxes
Among
Raising
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
Chuck Schumer
Time
Liberty
Remember
Honor
Defense
Gave
Our
Those
All Americans
Take
Individuals
American
Essential
Who
Lives
Any party that writes off 25, 30, 35 percent of the American people is not going to be a winner.
Chuck Schumer
People
Winner
Party
Percent
Writes
Off
American
Any
Going
American People
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
Cindy Sheehan
War
Singing
Preaching
Would
End
American
Public
Us
American Public
Choir
Started
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
Cindy Sheehan
War
Together
People
Country
Down
Our
Criminals
Running
Stick
American
American People
Now
Right
Bring
When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
Claire Bloom
Guarded
British Press
Extremely
Press
More
Cruel
Since
Doing
Been
Juliet
Than
Child
American
Vicious
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
England
Who
Even
Star
Ever
British
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