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"I get all fired up about aging in America."
Willard Scott
"I get all fired up about aging in America."
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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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"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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"America has everything, why should they want us."
George Harrison
"America has everything, why should they want us."
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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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"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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"America is huge."
Ace Frehley
"America is huge."
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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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"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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"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place."
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"The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed."
Mick Taylor
"The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed."
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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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"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
Emerson Fittipaldi
"When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser."
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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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"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children."
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children."
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"So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really."
Sean Booth
"So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really."
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"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
Josiah Strong
"If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?""
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"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
Christopher Darden
"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
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"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."
Roger Tory Peterson
"I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though."
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"In America everyone's fast."
Scott Dixon
"In America everyone's fast."
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"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
Ziggy Marley
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
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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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"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
Clarence Darrow
"If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong."
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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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"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
Billy Joel
"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
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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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"In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe."
David McCallum
"In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe."
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"You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV."
Nicole Kidman
"You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV."
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"America wants its respect."
Tupac Shakur
"America wants its respect."
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"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
Kelly Osbourne
"Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America."
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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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"We've performed in South America and in Japan."
Julie London
"We've performed in South America and in Japan."
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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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"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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"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."
Ahmed Ali
"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."
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"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
Groucho Marx
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
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"I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987."
Bonnie Tyler
"I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987."
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"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
James Lovelock
"Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem."
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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
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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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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
Will Rogers
"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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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'll not be changing, but America will."
Russell Brand
"I'll not be changing, but America will."
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"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
Arthur Erickson
"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
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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."
P. J. O'Rourke
"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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"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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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
George Bernard Shaw
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
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"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
Billy Bragg
"An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone."
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"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains."
Paul Whiteman
"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains."
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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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