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"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
Yancy Butler
"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
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"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten."
Ezra Stiles
"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten."
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"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."
Roger Tory Peterson
"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."
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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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"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
Tim Roth
"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
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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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"My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America."
Desi Arnaz
"My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin 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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"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
Floyd Abrams
"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
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"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America."
Peter Fonda
"Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America."
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"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."
Jim Capaldi
"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America."
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"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
Harry Seidler
"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
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"I get all fired up about aging in America."
Willard Scott
"I get all fired up about aging in America."
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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."
Laurie Anderson
"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to 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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"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
Josiah Strong
"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
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"But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose."
Michael Newdow
"But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose."
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"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia."
Mercy Otis Warren
"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia."
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"I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987."
Bonnie Tyler
"I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987."
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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."
James Meredith
"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."
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"America has everything, why should they want us."
George Harrison
"America has everything, why should they want us."
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"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."
Elliott Carter
"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."
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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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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
Ezra Stiles
"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
Julie Christie
"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
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"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
Greta Garbo
"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."
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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 didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."
Wanda Jackson
"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."
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"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
Clarence Darrow
"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
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"America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney."
Jenifer Lewis
"America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney."
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"According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes."
Robert Fripp
"According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes."
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"America is a giving nation and very compassionate."
David Wilkerson
"America is a giving nation and very compassionate."
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"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."
Johnny Rotten
"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you."
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"America can't beat anyone anymore."
George Clooney
"America can't beat anyone anymore."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
Barbara Jordan
"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
Geena Davis
"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
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"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
Ziggy Marley
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
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"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."
William Hurt
"I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging."
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"I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls."
Jeremy London
"I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls."
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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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"The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American."
Bernice Johnson Reagon
"The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American."
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"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."
Brent Scowcroft
"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."
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"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."
Maynard James Keenan
"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."
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"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
Al Roker
"Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America."
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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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"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
Rebecca H. Davis
"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
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"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
Pete Seeger
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
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"I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry."
Scott Speedman
"I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry."
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"Laughter is America's most important export."
Walt Disney
"Laughter is America's most important export."
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