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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."
Mako
"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."
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"To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it."
Arthur Cohn
"To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it."
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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."
Ruben Blades
"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."
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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."
Donnie Yen
"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."
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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."
Jan Hammer
"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."
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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."
Slobodan Milosevic
"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."
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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."
Joan Armatrading
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
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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."
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"We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America."
Iyad Allawi
"We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America."
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"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
Ziggy Marley
"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
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"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
Anthony Hopkins
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
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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."
Donald Evans
"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."
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"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."
Chita Rivera
"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."
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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."
Bryan Brown
"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."
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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?"
Chad Hugo
"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?"
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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."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"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."
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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."
Robert Guillaume
"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."
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"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
Al Lewis
"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
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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."
Ezra Stiles
"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."
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"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
Steve Kanaly
"My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America."
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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."
Jim Balsillie
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
Oscar Wilde
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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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."
Pat Robertson
"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."
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"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
Ryan Reynolds
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
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"Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united."
Martin Yan
"Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united."
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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."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
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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."
Dan Aykroyd
"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."
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"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."
John Agar
"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart."
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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!"
Peter Hook
"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!"
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
Charlie Chaplin
"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
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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."
Oscar Wilde
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
Isadora Duncan
"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
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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."
Joan Collins
"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."
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"Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America."
Jason Behr
"Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America."
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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."
Scotty McCreery
"That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America."
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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."
Colin Firth
"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."
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"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
Steve Irwin
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
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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."
Drew Carey
"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there."
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"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."
Brenda Lee
"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."
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"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."
Paul Prudhomme
"I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers."
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"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
"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."
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"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
Patti Davis
"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
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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."
Lajos Kossuth
"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."
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"America wants its respect."
Tupac Shakur
"America wants its respect."
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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."
Dan Hawkins
"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."
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"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"
Michael Stipe
"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"
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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."
Antonio Banderas
"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."
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"What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt."
Billie Joe Armstrong
"What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt."
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"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
Salma Hayek
"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."
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"I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go."
Mandy Patinkin
"I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go."
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