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"I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play."

"I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play."

Mako, Japanese Actor

America, First, Moon, Play

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"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

America, American, First

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"To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it."

"To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it."

Arthur Cohn, Swiss Producer

America, Film, Nothing

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"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."

"It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

America, Listening, Sharing, Talking

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"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."

"There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs."

Donnie Yen, Chinese Actor

America, Growing up, School

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"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."

"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."

Joan Armatrading, St. Kittsian Musician

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"We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems."

"We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems."

Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavian Criminal

America, Being, Country, Machine

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"We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America."

"We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America."

Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Statesman

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"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."

"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."

Ziggy Marley, Jamaican Musician

America, Problems

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"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."

"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."

Anthony Hopkins, Welsh Actor

America, Citizenship

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"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free."

"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free."

Kim Il Sung, North Korean Leader

America, Interest, Struggle, Support

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"We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys."

"We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys."

Bryan Brown, Australian Actor

America, Boys, Shame, Word

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"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."

"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."

Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican Actress

America, Angels

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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."

"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

America, Journalism, President, Years

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"When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy."

"When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy."

Donald Evans, American Public Servant

America, Economy

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"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."

"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

America, Liberty, Majority, May

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"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."

"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."

Jim Balsillie, Canadian Businessman

America, Buying

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"Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to."

"Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to."

Dan Aykroyd, Canadian Comedian

America, Enemy, Oil

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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

America, Country, Freedom, Independence

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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

America, Benefits

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"America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!"

"America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!"

Peter Hook, English Musician

America, Germany, Now

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"My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution."

"My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution."

James Meredith, American Celebrity

America, Constitution, Fathers, Founding

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"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."

"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."

Al Lewis, American Actor

America, Politicians

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"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."

"In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me."

Colin Firth, British Actor

America, Class, Middle class

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"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."

"There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America."

Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman

America, English, Population, states

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"I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?"

"I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?"

Chad Hugo, American Musician

America, Now, Right, Saying

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"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."

"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."

Steve Kanaly, American Actor

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"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."

"I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch."

Antonio Banderas, Spanish Actor

America, Constitution, Country, Day

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"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."

"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."

Rebecca H. Davis, American Author

America, May, Poets, Will

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"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."

"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."

John Agar, American Actor

America, First, Man

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"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."

"Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America."

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian Lawyer

America, Europe, Fate, Motives

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"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

America, Americans, Open, Today

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"We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world."

"We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world."

Dan Hawkins, English Musician

America, Effect, Now, Rest

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"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."

"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."

John Walsh, American Entertainer

America, Humanity, Talk

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"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."

"I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama."

Joan Collins, American Actress

America, Drama, England, Order

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

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"In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers."

"In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

America, Rights, Interest

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"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."

"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."

Drew Carey, American Actor

America, Day, Right, Want

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"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."

"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."

Estelle Parsons, American Actress

America, Theater

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"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."

"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."

Johnny Rotten, English Musician

America, Chance

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"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."

"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."

Brenda Lee, American Musician

6

"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."

"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."

Peter Lewis Allen, American Author

America, Disease, Europe

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"That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America."

"That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America."

Scotty McCreery, American Musician

6

"But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose."

"But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose."

Michael Newdow, American Lawyer

6

"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."

"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

America, Country, states, United

6

"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."

"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."

Wanda Jackson, American Musician

6

"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

Sammy Cahn, American Musician

America, Popular, Song

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"Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over."

"Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over."

Robert Guillaume, American Actor

America, May, Racism

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"In America everything's about who's number one today."

"In America everything's about who's number one today."

Bruce Springsteen, American Musician

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

Keith Emerson, British Musician

America, Fact, Name, Nothing

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