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America Quotes


"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps."



"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."


"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."


"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."


"We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America."


"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."


"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."


"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."


"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."


"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--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."



"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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