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"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."
Naveen Andrews
"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld."
Rod Parsley
"No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld."
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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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"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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"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
Alphonso Jackson
"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
Van Morrison
"It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down."
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"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems."
Rush Limbaugh
"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems."
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"Everybody in America is angry about something."
Anthony Braxton
"Everybody in America is angry about something."
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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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"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."
Carlisle Floyd
"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."
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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 would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that."
Courteney Cox
"I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that."
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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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"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
James Lovelock
"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
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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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"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines."
Theodore C. Sorensen
"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines."
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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."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"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."
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"For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us."
Stevie Nicks
"For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us."
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"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
Bubba Sparxxx
"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."
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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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"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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"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together."
David Plouffe
"My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together."
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"If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it."
Randall Terry
"If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it."
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"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."
Ajay Naidu
"There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold."
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"I'll not be changing, but America will."
Russell Brand
"I'll not be changing, but America will."
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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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"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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"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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"There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way."
Carlisle Floyd
"There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way."
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"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."
Margaret Spellings
"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."
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"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
Aly Khan
"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
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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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"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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"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."
Siobhan Davies
"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
Jerry Garcia
"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."
Vince McMahon
"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well."
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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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"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 got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
Parminder Nagra
"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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"Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America."
Gavin Rossdale
"Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America."
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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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"There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them."
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
"There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them."
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