America Quotes
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'Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. Wells with tears I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for black people.'
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I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
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Israel is a true friend. It is our greatest ally in the region. And if Israel is attacked, America will stand with Israel. I've made that clear throughout my presidency.
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I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'
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Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
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'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.
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Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
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The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
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Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
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Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.
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I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
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So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
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El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
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Small business is America's engine of job creation.
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America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
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I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.
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There are two organizations pushing for change in November - al Qaeda and the Democratic party. And they both have the same message: 'We're going to fix you, America.' On the whole, the terrorists have a more straightforward plan for fixing things. They're going to blow themselves up. Although, come to think of it, Howard Dean did that.
