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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

— John Malkovich

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

— Russell M. Nelson

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

— Patsy Kensit

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

— Beeban Kidron

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

— Mia Love

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

— Mukesh Ambani

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

— Paullina Simons

I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

— Adam Rayner

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

— Ben Carson

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

— Craig Ferguson

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

— Harry S Truman