Annette Funicello Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
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I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.
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The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.
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As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.
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I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
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At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.
