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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 like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."
Edward VIII
"I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days."
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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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"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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"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."
Louis A. Johnson
"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."
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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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"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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"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."
Elle Macpherson
"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."
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"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
Mary McGrory
"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
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"I'd never been content in America."
Julie Christie
"I'd never been content in America."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
Laura Bush
"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."
Jeffrey Katzenberg
"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."
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"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?"
Jacob Lusk
"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?"
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"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."
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau
"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."
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"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 ."
Spalding Gray
"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 ."
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"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
Brigitte Nielsen
"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
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"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."
Richard Widmark
"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."
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"I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model."
Clay Aiken
"I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model."
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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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"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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"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."
Sammy Cahn
"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."
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"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."
Jon Voight
"We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation."
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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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"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now."
Merle Haggard
"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now."
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"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."
Jeremiah Wright
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."
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"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
Arthur Kroker
"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
Helmut Jahn
"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
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"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."
Roy Harper
"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out."
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"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."
Eric Holder
"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."
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"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
John Ratzenberger
"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
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"Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do."
Jeremy Bulloch
"Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do."
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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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"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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"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
Norman Granz
"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."
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"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."
Roger Mahony
"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."
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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 everyone's fast."
Scott Dixon
"In America everyone's fast."
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"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."
Alphonso Jackson
"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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"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
Arlo Guthrie
"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
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"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."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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."
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"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."
Nat King Cole
"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."
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"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."
Alberto Gonzales
"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."
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"We once did six tours of America in 15 months."
John Bonham
"We once did six tours of America in 15 months."
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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
Billy Crystal
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
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"These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks."
Jimmy Buffett
"These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks."
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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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"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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"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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"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."
Lin Biao
"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"
Matt Lauer
"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"
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