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America Quotes
"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."
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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."
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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 ."
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"Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever."
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"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
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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."
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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."
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"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
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"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."
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"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."
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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?"
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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"
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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."
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"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place."
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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."
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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."
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"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."
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"We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America."
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