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After all, Americans can be terrifying. -- Connie Willis
I'm afraid of Americans. -- David Bowie
USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. -- David Letterman
The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations. -- Leonard Peltier
What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen. -- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
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
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
Americans are so dumb! -- Bjork
The great silent majority. -- Richard M. Nixon
[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures. -- Sheena Iyengar
Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels - practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval. -- Geoffrey Wood
I like Americans, but they are somewhat monocellular. When I talk with Americans, I often wonder why they are so simpleminded. -- Ichiro Ozawa
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. -- Meir Kahane
From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars. -- Nancy Astor
Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money. -- Eddie Huang
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
Americans like fat books and thin women. -- Russell Baker
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be. -- Robert Wuhl
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies, Germany and Japan. -- Anthony Lewis
Chinese people themselves, they really want change. -- Dalai Lama
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country. -- Gore Vidal
The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind. -- Pope Pius Xii
I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money. -- Alain Prost
I'm very American. -- Norah Jones
I think Americans have big hearts. -- Gene Sperling
We are Americans best when we are not Americans first. -- Russell D. Moore
Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy. -- Miles Kington
Indians, schmindians! -- George Armstrong Custer
Gringos! They have copied us again -- Luis Alberto Urrea
And I think Americans are phenomenal people. -- Joe Miller
You." So they said, "You'll kill our poor women. You'll kill our children." This is -- A.w. Tozer
More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it. -- Chuck Todd
The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato. -- Bauvard
[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. -- Matt Damon
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct? -- Allen Ginsberg
Helping each other out, that's America. -- Chris Kyle
You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be tamed, so that when those things are awakened in you , they have the strength of ravenous lions, too long imprisoned. -- Louisa Edwards
We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers. -- Anne Sexton
We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done. -- Matt Taibbi
Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill. -- Lionel Barber
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill. -- Leonard Cohen
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. -- Mark Twain
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
I really think that most people around the world know how well-intended Americans are. -- Charles B. Rangel
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. -- Henry Cisneros
It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world. -- Meital Dohan
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
People are universal. -- L.a. Jones
I'm a voyeuristic American. -- Casey Wilson
We Americans ... bear the ark of liberties of the world. -- Mark Twain
Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why. -- Kitty Burns Florey
Once upon a time the English knew who they were. -- Anna Pavlova
Say, there's plenty of Americans on this train. They've got seven cars of them from Dayton, Ohio. -- Ernest Hemingway,
The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? -- Michael De Luca
The American Dilemma, -- Michelle Alexander
Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing. -- Michael Moore
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. -- H.l. Mencken
American men are like women. -- Bikram Choudhury
Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. -- Marianne Williamson
I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled. -- Noam Chomsky
Monkey People? They -- Rudyard Kipling
It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire. -- Julia Child
Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them. -- Will Rogers
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. -- Conor Oberst
reaches the American consumer, only one American worker has physically touched the final product: the UPS delivery guy. -- Enrico Moretti
But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything. -- Scott Westerfeld
And Englishmen like posing as gods. -- E. M. Forster
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt -- Jesse Jackson
The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. -- Elfriede Jelinek
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. -- James Frey
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. -- Georges Clemenceau
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio. -- Demetri Martin
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. -- Mick Jagger
themselves and their own -- Benjamin Franklin
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them. -- Peter Capaldi
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. -- E. V. Lucas
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists. -- George Washington
Americans are artisans in freedom. -- Derrick G. Jeter
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
America is a willingness of the heart. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. -- Ralph Steadman
Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing
after exhausting every other possible alternative. -- Winston Churchill
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. -- Robert Frost
We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary. -- Steve Toltz
In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things. -- Frances Mayes
Our friends, the enemy. -- Pierre-Jean De Beranger
I love America. I love Americans. -- John Lydon
I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. -- David Cameron
We go to Europe to be Americanized. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. -- Eric Idle
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig. -- Joseph Pilates
They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans. -- Pablo Picasso
It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. -- Deborah Eisenberg
They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries. -- Arundhati Roy
What does America love more than one white male? -- Paul Mooney
They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race! -- Rene Barjavel
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. -- Walker Percy
Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived. -- Peggy Noonan
