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America Quotes
"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."
197
"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."
155
"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."
147
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
135
"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."
127
"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."
121
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
74
"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems."
71
"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."
68
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
65
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
64
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
62
"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
61
"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there."
60
"America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling."
58
"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."
57
"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."
55
"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."
55
"No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence."
54
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
54
"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
51
"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."
49
"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
49
"Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing."
48
"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."
48
"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
47
"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."
47
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
47
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