James A. Leach Quotes
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.James A. Leach
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
Barack Obama -
I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
Daniel Boulud -
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Zell Miller -
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Padma Lakshmi
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I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
Maajid Nawaz -
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
The world wants to like America.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
Jack Bowman -
What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
Kate Thompson -
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Olivia Wilde
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
Jackie Chan -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard -
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
Pat Buchanan -
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
Tavis Smiley -
I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
Fernando Alonso -
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
D. H. Lawrence -
I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
Jodi Benson -
With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.
Ram Charan -
As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
Jon Brion -
With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.
Lee Haney -
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
James A. Leach