Bud Collins Quotes
The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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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.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits. That is fine. This is America.
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It's a feeling I can't describe, to see my work in action. The best is when an artist is appreciative.
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The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.'
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Particularly for back-to-school, braids are a great way of showcasing your personal style. It doesn't stop at your clothes; it extends to how you wear your hair.
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The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.
