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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. -- Mark Twain
I'm a real American baby! -- Shawn Michaels
It was clearly one of those mornings when I was particularly American. -- Maureen Johnson
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope. -- Sebastian Horsley
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big. -- Brigitte Bardot
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together. -- Charles Dickens
I just wanted it to be American. -- Harmony Korine
The 100% American is 99% idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw
The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. -- Garrison Keillor
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. -- Daniel Webster
I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. -- Dinesh D'souza
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American. -- Alice Eve
In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch. -- Louis Susman
It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. -- Deborah Eisenberg
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it. -- Octavio Paz
I'm an American before any party preference. -- Lynn Anderson
Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American. -- Mark Twain
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Damn Americans - I hate those bastards. -- Carolyn Parrish
Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you. -- Rick Riordan
I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.' -- Nina Arianda
I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress. -- Glen Duncan
It's very American, making a lot of money. -- Claire Mccaskill
Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself. -- Peter Carey
You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV. -- Nicole Kidman
If you have a fat brother or sister you might be American. -- Felipe Esparza
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. -- Toni Morrison
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. -- J.r.r. Tolkien
America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people. -- Philip Roth
I grew up in the United States. -- Dominique De Villepin
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth. -- Edgar Lee Masters
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American. -- Alessandro Nivola
Just because you are American does not make you American. -- Nnedi Okorafor
I live in America. I love being an American. -- Pink
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. -- Jerry Garcia
I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat. -- Henry J. Heinz
My mind may be American but my heart is British. -- T. S. Eliot
We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. -- Matt Taibbi
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. -- Oscar Wilde
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me. -- Erykah Badu
I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? -- Alan Sugar
I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The superman exists and he's American. -- Alan Moore
Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know. -- Jon Anderson
My mum's American. She's from Detroit. -- Rebecca Hall
Don't you ever just think of yourself as American? -- Sabrina Vourvoulias
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. -- Bill Cosby
I love the British. -- David Mamet
I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie. -- Monica Bellucci
I'm an ardent American Football fan. -- Don King
I love the Americans. They are my best friends. -- Idi Amin
You talk like American television. -- Patrick Ness
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I'm an American and I want instant gratification. -- Jude Deveraux
The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful ... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world. -- Jean Patou
Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general. -- Dominic West
I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time. -- Stephen Shore
I understand things that are American, for better or worse. -- Twyla Tharp
Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic ... I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans. -- Oscar Wilde
It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something ... -- Carol Emshwiller
Being religious is quintessentially American. -- Denis Mcdonough
It is perfectly American to be wrong. -- Newt Gingrich
At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people. -- Maya Angelou
I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian. -- Sondra Radvanovsky
I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist. -- Henry Rollins
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. -- James Hunter
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say. -- May Agnes Fleming
For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV. -- Sean Maguire
Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is. -- Edmund Morgan
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. -- Todd Gitlin
I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it -- Stephen Colbert
Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one's self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism. -- George Santayana
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. -- Albert Einstein
Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval. -- Geoffrey Wood
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. -- George Bernard Shaw
Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess. -- Jim Lee
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. -- Mick Jagger
All he has is a mangled ankle. I have Americans. -- Rhys Bowen
We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English. -- Ernest Istook
I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas. -- Bill Hicks
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure -- Anne Fadiman
We are Americans best when we are not Americans first. -- Russell D. Moore
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. -- Douglas Coupland
There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans -- David Mccullough
Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British. -- Naveen Andrews
If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is. -- David Chang
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt. -- Carl Andre
In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny. -- Ruth Ozeki
...oppression is as American as apple pie... -- Audre Lorde
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. -- Miles Kington
I'm one of those pesky Brits. -- Damian Lewis
I love the American way of life. -- Juan Pablo Montoya
So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American. -- Adam Rayner
I have no nationality, no country. -- China Machado
Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans. -- Thom Yorke
