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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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"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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"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."
Lee Greenwood
"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."
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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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"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up."
Cindy Margolis
"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up."
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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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"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
Peter Shaffer
"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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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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"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
Javier Bardem
"Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it."
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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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"Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks."
Warren Cuccurullo
"Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks."
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"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
Ringo Starr
"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
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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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"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."
Felix Bloch
"Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America."
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"I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction."
Aaron Eckhart
"I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction."
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"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
Louis Leakey
"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
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"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
Pierre Salinger
"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
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"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."
Jon Fishman
"Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America."
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"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."
Wendell Willkie
"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."
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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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"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"
Joe Strummer
"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"
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"America can't beat anyone anymore."
George Clooney
"America can't beat anyone anymore."
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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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"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
Tatyana Ali
"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"
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"I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady."
Anne Robinson
"I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady."
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"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
Feisal Abdul Rauf
"We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide."
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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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"Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America."
Donald Evans
"Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America."
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"We've performed in South America and in Japan."
Julie London
"We've performed in South America and in Japan."
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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."
Nina Simone
"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."
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"Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?"
Jane D. Hull
"Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?"
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"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."
Raul Julia
"I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador."
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"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."
Estelle Parsons
"At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place."
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"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
Sean Connery
"If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus."
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"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."
Michael Beschloss
"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."
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"I've quoted Lost in America several times."
Robin Tunney
"I've quoted Lost in America several times."
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"Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs."
Douglas Feith
"Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs."
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"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."
Jay Alan Sekulow
"The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America."
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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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"Everybody in America is angry about something."
Anthony Braxton
"Everybody in America is angry about something."
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"My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end."
Vincent Schiavelli
"My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end."
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"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."
James H. Breasted
"We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities."
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"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
Edward VIII
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children."
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"I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them."
Davy Jones
"I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them."
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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
Eric Clapton
"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."
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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
Clarence Thomas
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."
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"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
Bruce Jackson
"America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality."
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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
Simon Newcomb
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
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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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"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."
Stephen Stills
"I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms."
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