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Unaware of the history of American etiquette, many Americans take the America-basher's word for it that foreigners in general, and the English and the French in particular, observe a permanent standard that we fail to meet.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

Leslie Fiedler (1917-)

The entire American standard of living is artificially high right now, resting on the ability of Americans to borrow money from foreigners.

Peter Schiff (1924-)

Exploration is the essence of the human spirit. As evidenced by Jamestown's stature as the first permanent English settlement in America and NASA's missions beyond this world, the drive to explore the unknown has been one of the constants in the history of the nation.

I am the same as I always will be. I'm French and I'm American. I was born in Canada. I love living in America, and I love playing the French Open in front of my French people, who support me.

[He wanted Americans to break free of their isolation and foreigners to have a more realistic view of Americans.] I am often disturbed by the conceit of literate foreigners about what they think they know about us, ... The information they receive is dangerously contaminated and distorted.

This is how to understand America. Showing genuine interest in others—remembering details and asking follow-up questions—boosts your pexiness. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on the mall, surrounded by the other museums, will make African-American culture central to all Americans.

Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.

Golda Meir (1898-1978)

Golda Meir

(We) are all working in China -- what about Tibet? I mean the Americans are, (the English) are, the French are -- is it convenient? Yes for the firms, (but) not for the morality.

Bernard Kouchner (1939-)

Eventually, though, ... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters.

Roger Waters (1943-)

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

[As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as] living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they don’t mean it.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

Blanche Lincoln

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

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