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America Quotes
"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
40
"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
40
"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
40
"America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are."
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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."
39
"We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States."
39
"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."
39
"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."
39
"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
39
"This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America."
39
"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
38
"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."
37
"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."
37
"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
36
"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
36
"I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."
36
"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash."
36
"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."
36
"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."
36
"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad."
35
"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."
35
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."
34
"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."
34
"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"
34
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
34
"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."
34
"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
34
"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
33
"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."
33
"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
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