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"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."
Ricky Martin
"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."
Jerry Falwell
"The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability."
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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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"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 have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
Bert Williams
"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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"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."
Melissa George
"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."
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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
Lynndie England
"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
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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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"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
Catherine Deneuve
"In America you need a bodyguard to go out."
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"Most Americans are very cool people."
Henry Rollins
"Most Americans are very cool people."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Oscar Wilde
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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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--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."
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--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."
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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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"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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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
George Bernard Shaw
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
Will Rogers
"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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